Posted on 11/07/2022 4:35:02 PM PST by Timber Rattler
The United States will send 40 armored riverine boats to Ukraine as part of the latest assistance package.
The riverine boats are part of a $400 million aid package announced Friday. It’s the second time the U.S. is sending riverine boats to Ukraine as part of ongoing assistance in response to the Russian invasion.
The aid assistance package does not detail the type of riverine boats the U.S. is sending to Ukraine. Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh did not provide details but said that how the riverine boats will be used is up to the Ukrainian forces.
The U.S. previously sent 18 riverine boats in June. Metal Shark sent six of those boats, USNI News previously reported. Six patrol boats are already operating in the Black Sea, Naval News reported.
Also part of the package announced Friday are 45 refurbished T-72B tanks.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
Word in the Dunbas is that they make a Big Boomie when hammered by an Iranian drone.
I forgot about the sand bars. Would piranha survive ?
Ditto - use Zodiacs
Those Russian T-72 tanks would work well on our southern border. Seriously, why waste any M-1 Abrams when we could use T-72s?
The Puppet masters are trying to give away as much as possible because they know in 24 hours the American People are going to put the Biden regime on death row.
Then the real fun starts on January 21, 2023. Severe punishment and pain is coming for the coup plotters despite what Rona says. Twenty Four hours!
Why not drones on the border shooting tranquilizer darts?Or darts that turn men soft?
These days there’s places on the Rio Grande where you couldn’t float a popsicle stick.
Wheres j f’n kerry? 😁
And why are my taxes paying for this?
“Ditto - use Zodiacs.”
That would do it.
That photo was from March 2014. I doubt that those tanks are still there.
Because the Rio Grande is too shallow?
The Ukies are going to need them when Vlad rolls up to the Dniepner River. Until then, they are good for fishing.
Wow that bad. No wonder it is so easy for them to cross.
There are also rumors from Ukraine that Sullivan has pressed Zelensky to launch a Kherson campaign as soon as possible. Zelensky is said to have agreed to do so.
But the Ukrainian army does not want to do that - at least not now. The Russian troops in the area have been reinforced. The fields are muddy and can not be crossed by heavy vehicles. Russian artillery attacks destroy equipment pre-positioned for the attack before it is ready to come near the front line.
The Ukrainian military has for weeks tried probing attacks in the Kherson region. These had no significant results while the attacking units had high losses. The units deployed around the region have been there since early October or longer. The Military Land deployment map shows only one unit that arrived just five days ago. The 98th Azov battalion, one of the fascist volunteer forces, has been positioned in the back of 128th Mountain Assault Brigade which, in recent weeks, has had some of the most serious losses.
The use of such 'nationalist' forces to prevent the retreat of exhausted front line units has been a regular occurrence in this war.
Ukraine has for weeks had no success on the battle field. Washington wants it to show such a success so that it can tell its allies that the war can be won by the Ukrainian side. The push for an attack on Kherson is again part of the overall campaign to convince Europeans that they should sustain the efforts to arm and support Ukraine.
The campaign is misleading. Ukraine is losing the war badly. But the U.S. wants to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian - and down to the last Euro.
What’s a real conservative worried about on the eve of crucial mid-term? Um, not the war in Ukraine...
400 million dollars for Ukraine...
How much did we send to hurricane ravaged Florida?
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