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U.S. planning to give Ukraine smart-bomb kits
Washington Post ^ | 14-DEC-2022 | Dan Lamothe

Posted on 12/14/2022 5:09:28 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas

The Biden administration is planning to send Ukraine advanced electronic equipment that converts unguided aerial munitions into “smart bombs” that can target Russian military positions with a high degree of accuracy, according to senior U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The kits incorporate global positioning devices for precision and can be bolted onto a variety of weapons, creating what the Pentagon calls a Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM. The U.S. military has used the technology on bombs weighing up to 2,000 pounds, usually incorporating it with bomber aircraft and fighter jets.

It was not immediately clear whether President Biden or any of his top national security advisers have approved the proposed JDAMs’ transfer to Ukraine. Those familiar with matter, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations, did not say whether Ukrainian forces would employ the kits on aircraft or ground-based weapons, or what specific systems in Ukraine’s arsenal would be candidates for such augmentation.

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KEYWORDS: bidenteamnews; creepyintexas; targetingcivilians; terrorism; usisaterrorstate
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Mark my words, Abrams and F-16s will eventually be delivered.
1 posted on 12/14/2022 5:09:28 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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Archived version: https://archive.ph/o13kL


2 posted on 12/14/2022 5:09:40 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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Can't we at least sell this stuff to them?
3 posted on 12/14/2022 5:11:25 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Ukrainians are paying in blood.


4 posted on 12/14/2022 5:13:24 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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correct. thats what the patriot missile system they are sending is for.


5 posted on 12/14/2022 5:13:39 PM PST by davidb56
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Can’t we at least sell this stuff to them?
= = =

Yeah, we know they have money.

Ours.


6 posted on 12/14/2022 5:14:16 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: SpeedyInTexas

The US is itching for an all-out war and if they keep it up, they just may get it.


7 posted on 12/14/2022 5:15:53 PM PST by Saintgermain
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Mark my words, Abrams and F-16s will eventually be delivered.

yeah, and so what?

Are you some MBA tw@t in DC working on commission from Lockheed Martin?

8 posted on 12/14/2022 5:16:34 PM PST by PGR88
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You’ve admitted you aren’t an American.

So suck lemons.


9 posted on 12/14/2022 5:17:19 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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Yep. The US/NATO/Military Industrial Complex/Globalists are pushing for a big war.


10 posted on 12/14/2022 5:17:42 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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11 posted on 12/14/2022 5:18:52 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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I know he posted on here that he would rather have a global nuclear war, with billions killed, than to have Russia keep one inch of Ukraine.

Pretty devout for a “Texan”.


12 posted on 12/14/2022 5:18:56 PM PST by EEGator
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“Yep. The US/NATO/Military Industrial Complex/Globalists are pushing for a big war.”

Don’t forget to add the Homos... Silly you.

The US/NATO/Military Industrial Complex/Globalists/HOMOS are pushing for a big war.


13 posted on 12/14/2022 5:19:28 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: EEGator

Let RuZZia burn in h*.


14 posted on 12/14/2022 5:20:15 PM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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U.S. planning to give Ukraine smart-bomb kits

Which the Uke Nazis will assemble in occupied civilian apartment houses and grade school classrooms.

15 posted on 12/14/2022 5:21:59 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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Your purposeful misspelling makes you seem a petulant, warmongering NeoCon.

Ukraine isn’t an ally.
This is a European issue.


16 posted on 12/14/2022 5:22:26 PM PST by EEGator
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To: SpeedyInTexas

May it be so

and soon!


17 posted on 12/14/2022 5:23:55 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: davidb56

Let it be so!


18 posted on 12/14/2022 5:24:35 PM PST by Sunsong
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"The US/NATO/Military Industrial Complex/Globalists/HOMOS are pushing for a big war."

...and you seem to be joining them.

19 posted on 12/14/2022 5:24:53 PM PST by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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Which the Uke Nazis will assemble in occupied civilian apartment houses and grade school classrooms.

Navy Patriot thus demonstrates they were conceived in an orgy, with it being doubtful so much stupid could come from just two people.

20 posted on 12/14/2022 5:25:33 PM PST by Brellium (The environment is of upmost importance, without trees where will we hang Moscovites?)
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