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To: SpeedyInTexas

Wish list for when the new US funding is approved?

Reuters reports:

“Ukraine’s ground forces commander said on Friday (12 Jan) that Kyiv needed more military aircraft for its war effort, such as U.S. A-10 attack jets to support infantry and planes that could fire long-range cruise missiles...

...”It is for destroying land-based targets: tanks, artillery ... everything that counters the infantry,” he said.

Sirskyi added that attack helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache and AH-1 Super Cobra, as well as the UH-60 Black Hawk, could also play an important role...

...Despite near-stalemate along a frontline some 1,000 km (620 miles) long, Syrskyi, who oversaw the defence of Kyiv in early 2022 and Ukraine’s lightning counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region later that year, said future breakthroughs were still possible.”


59 posted on 01/12/2024 8:24:08 PM PST by BeauBo
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Sirskyi added that attack helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache and AH-1 Super Cobra, as well as the UH-60 Black Hawk, could also play an important role...

I'm sure the DoD could prepare 100 of the USMC's recently retired AH-1W SuperCobras, which would be very effective on the front lines. The Blackhawk would be a good in several configurations, and Igor Sikorsky, being from Kyiv, would certainly have approved.

62 posted on 01/12/2024 11:03:50 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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