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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All the offensive materiel is coming from the USA, but don’t you dare call it a proxy war.
Ukrainians need to study present-day Libya, Iraq, Syria, Somalia.
Its their future.
Need George Soros meme.
The Ukrainians still lack armor, and they don't appear to have a lot of offensive ground capability. But these are the kindo f things that will eventually swing the balance of forces in the Kherson sector to their favor.
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)
Yet Ukraine is losing badly. Their “offensive” was decimated.
I wish the U.S. would stop whatever multiple factors have made my FPL bill surge to all time highs, rather than launder money in the Ukraine. Russia could bomb London tomorrow, and my life would go on as usual - only w/ a now sky high electric bill.
Don't be silly...it's only getting started.
That’s awesome. Should come in handy against iranian drones.
Wow, just wait until these babies hit the black market and begin to terrorize civil aviation. Some will make it to the front, many will be destroyed or captured by Russia, and the rest will be sold on the dark web. Ukraine is a giant weapons bazaar, and investment in unintended consequences yet to come.
Whaddya say, Joe?
Yet it was stopped in its tracks. No territory gained. Massive losses.
The first time I saw technicals. .50 caliber machines guns mounted onto pickup truck beds. Was in the Somalia wars of the early 1990s. So at least they invented that. Or perhaps got it from someone earlier?
Wow, just wait until these babies hit the black market and begin to terrorize civil aviation. Some will make it to the front, many will be destroyed or captured by Russia, and the rest will be sold on the dark web. Ukraine is a giant weapons bazaar, and investment in unintended consequences yet to come.
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I guess there’s a good market for weapons now if the taliban have sold out all the weapons systems zho bai din left for them in afghanistan?
Is all your war pimping for the GOPe and the DC Neocon set getting heavy? After all it’s over for Zelenskyy and his corrupt clique. Yesterday’s vaunted offensive has already collapsed. It’s best you stick to PA politics and salvage some credibility.
No F-15s? I guess Joe needs those for the war at home.
“All the offensive materiel is coming from the USA, but don’t you dare call it a proxy war.”
Not all. Tons of former Soviet equipment is being dusted off and sent from Poland, et al. Just doesn’t make the news here.
According to whom? The Russians? Don't be silly.
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