Posted on 08/31/2022 7:51:50 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The Biden administration announced that Ukraine would receive $3 billion in military assistance — the largest amount it has sent since Russia began its invasion in February.
The Department of Defense said that it was meeting both Ukraine’s “immediate and longer-term security assistance needs.”
Among the 245,000 rounds of artillery ammunition and the laser-guided rocket systems listed in the Pentagon’s security assistance for Ukraine under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) were the VAMPIRE Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems.
VAMPIRE is an acronym for “Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment.” In short, the system transforms pickup trucks and other vehicles into mobile missile launchers.
The alteration of existing vehicles will allow the kits to have a more immediate impact than other forms of military aid, according to Matthew Schmidt, director of international affairs and an associate professor of national security at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.
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The kit is made up of a four-barreled rocket launcher and a ball that operates as a sensor. L3Harris, the manufacturer, said that VAMPIREs can be placed on a vehicle in two hours and applied by a single person.
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I bet the dorks at the DOD spent all night coming up with that acronym.
Look at a map. Your Nazi’s are getting their azzes handed to them.
Aid to Ukraine is primarily money laundering operation. Are you getting a piece of pie, Timber?
In short, the system transforms pickup trucks and other vehicles into mobile missile launchers.
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Where’d the $40B go? You’d think for that sort of money they could afford actual military vehicles.
Thanks! I just read your link.
This is a war between the US and Russia via a willing proxie Ukraine. Ukraine is crawling with US military “advisors” .
So it’s even more of a proxy war.
Now that Afghanistan is off the table, Ukraine is the designated testing grounds for live fire of the latest US Defense Contractor Weapons Platforms, on human beings.
Without the danger of US casualties (so far, anyway).
“Watch our latest XM23-TAC platform wipe out 75 soldiers in 3 minutes, from the back of this donkey cart!”
Woopeee!!!! Go Team America!!!
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
I know plenty of Vietnam vets who are laughing their rear ends off.
Did the Pentagram ask ISIS to give them back?
“Its their future.”
They already have being a Soviet Russian slave state in their past.
Name one.
Read lots more here.
In the 1970s the Air Force had an acronym dictionary that was constantly updated.
I wonder if it still exists?
Game Changer #6 LOL
#6. They’re Not Properly Authenticated
#5. They’re Not as “Rare” as You’d Think
#4. They’re Composites—Genuine Antiques Paired with Artificially-Aged Items
#3. Someone’s Confessed to Faking the Original Kits
#2. Buying Them Encourages More to Be Made, Sold and Displayed
#1. You Can Make or Buy Your Own Cheaper Kits
But some of them sure look cool. 🙂
Does our military have any weapons or ammo left in case China would start something? It seems we are packing it all off to Ukraine. And I’m guessing Ukraine is not paying for any of this stuff, so we won’t be able to afford to replace it.
Lastly, where do I get one of those? It would be great for rush hour.
I want one.
Of course when it will be us on the receiving side, it’ll be all different.
Then we’ll talk about unlawful combatants or terrorists. We’ll be outraged at how someone would dare arm our enemies. We’ll question the idiology behind them and claim that no sane person would arm, train or feed Intel to such a crazy group or organization.
It’s always different when it’s us. But when it is us, then arming Saddam, Noriega, Azov or training AQ is OK. Our reasons are always good reasons even if we’re all over the map inconsistent.
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