Posted on 04/19/2022 1:54:49 PM PDT by captain_jonas
The United States lacks the capability to reliably track the array of weapons being sent by the Biden administration to Ukraine, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing sources briefed on US intelligence.
"We have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero," a source said. "It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time."
The Biden administration factored in the risk of providing weapons to Ukraine that may end up in the hands of militias and other groups that the US does not want to arm, the report said. However, officials currently view a failure to adequately arm Ukraine as a greater risk, the report added.
“Quite unlike Afghanistan, which fell apart like a $5 suit without US troops to carry the load.”
Like Ukraine, no air-cover provided.
You’d think each missile would have a serial number, an embedded tracker; or, that the batteries had a short shelf life—or shorted by satellite message.
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