Posted on 04/07/2022 3:23:39 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Britain is to supply heavier weapons and armoured combat vehicles to support Ukraine.
UK aid is being ramped up as the war enters what Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called ‘a new and difficult phase’.
She predicted ‘a more concentrated Russian offensive’ in the days and weeks ahead as she met Nato foreign ministers in Brussels.
The offensive is expected to involve tens of thousands of Russian troops taking on Ukraine forces in the east of the country.
To ensure the protection of Ukrainian troops, Britain will provide armoured vehicles which can withstand explosive devices, rockets and rifle fire.
According to sources, the UK has also agreed to send Harpoon anti-ship missiles in a bid to break the Russian navy’s siege of Black Sea ports.
Ukrainian top brass witnessed what vehicles and weapons the UK can provide at a demonstration on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, this week.
Among the kit expected to be sent is the biggest of the vehicles from the Army’s ‘Protected Patrol’ fleet – the Mastiff, which weighs 23 tons.
This 6x6 wheel-drive patrol vehicle can carry eight troops and two crew, and was designed to withstand high-grade Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) used by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Such is the level of protection it provides, a defence source last night likened it to the concrete defences built into coastlines during the Second World War.
The source said: ‘It is basically like a mobile pill box. You can pretty much fire anything at it in an urban environment and it will keep on going.
‘It is pretty well armed too. This vehicle should prove ideal for the Ukrainians given where the fighting is going to be taking place.’
Other vehicles from the Army’s fleet being considered for deployment include the Ridgback and the Husky.
UK military reconnaissance vehicles such
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Insanity.
Ukraine ping
UK to send Harpoons and Mastiff armored cars to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Moscow Joe continues to slow-walk aid to Ukraine. You gotta hand it to Putin. Taking down Trump in collusion with the Democrats and bribing Joe were the best investments he’s ever made.
I pity NATO countries coming to an overseas war in future. Everyone knows why they were relatively bloodless for them post-Cold War.
Gasoline on the fire...
Nice.
Russia has nothing to gain but a lot to lose by extending this.
[I pity NATO countries coming to an overseas war in future. Everyone knows why they were relatively bloodless for them post-Cold War.]
What Russian defeat, what colonial empire?:) What are you guys smoking?
I still think china will absorb Russia. China needs food and oil. With a weak Russia china will offer Aid like they have in other countries only to rule them.
So blowing up a Russian Tank destroys about a $1 million dollar asset.
How much does sinking a Russian ship destroy?
Tactical nuke TLAMs to Ukraine NOW!
The Russian navy has made all of the difference in the South. Anti-ship missiles can negate that advantage. Give the Ukies the missiles they need to start sinking more of Putin’s Black Sea fleet. When they’re all on the bottom of the sea, the ports in the region will be less useful to the Ruskies.
Great news. Anti ship missiles are what’s needed in the coming phase of the war.
The more dead Russian invaders the better.
Go back to Russia and none of this will be necessary.
Pretty simple really.
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The war is all but over. Putin has been defeated and will soon be removed from power.
Britsh taxpayers (or American ones either) shouldn’t be asked to pay for weapons going to a conflict which is none of our business in the first place and which has already been decided.
Hopefully, they didn't destroy Stonehenge as collateral damage.
The Russians can lay mines that sink ships.
So now you’re deciding what Britain should do?
That’s their choice alone, and “none of our business”
BTW you offer no proof that the war is over, so the fighting must continue until the Russian monsters are repelled
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