Posted on 12/21/2022 1:59:03 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The United States for the first time will send a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine as part of a major $1.85 billion weapons package, the Pentagon revealed Wednesday.
The new lethal assistance, announced in concert with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington, D.C., includes $1 billion in presidential drawdown authority, which has the U.S. military pull weapons from its own stockpiles to send to Kyiv.
Another $850 million in assistance will come via the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, meaning the Defense Department will buy directly from industry.
The package will include one Patriot air defense battery and munitions. The vehicle-mounted system is designed to hit mid- and high-altitude targets such as missiles, fighter jets, bombers and drones in order to protect military and civilian targets.
“Russia’s unrelenting and brutal air attacks against critical infrastructure have only reinforced the need to provide Ukraine with sophisticated air defense capabilities,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “At President Biden’s direction, the United States has prioritized the provision of air defense systems to help Ukraine defend its people from Russian aggression.”
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We will have to send the operators and technicians, too
I wonder how many Americans have died in Ukraine in 2022?
500 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds,
mortar systems and rounds,
37 Cougar Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles,
120 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles,
six armored utility trucks;
High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs),
precision aerial munitions,
2,700 grenade launchers and small arms and other equipment and arms.
It is already a NATO-Russian war.
Congress does pretty well spending money when the country is broke.
“this on top of the 45 billion diaper mouth his giving him?”
45 billion? Is this on top of the 100 billion we gave to them in 2022?
The Army has 1,106 Patriot launchers. In 2010, 483 were in service. These are Cold War spares.
But cutting Meddicare here.😡
I thought Putin had run out. Was the Pentagon lying then or are they lying now. I guess I need to go read the Penta-bots on Twitter to find out what they are really saying.
My question too. An audit is required.
CIA has unnamed stars...
“... The United States for the first time will send a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine as part of a major $1.85 billion weapons package,...”
Which means that Russia will soon have a Patriot missile battery in their inventory.
They’ve only got a 40%, at best, success rate.
wy68
that was my first thought.
Z doesn’t want to negotiate an end to hostilities - he clearly stated this morning his goal is ‘revenge’ and dollars spent didn’t matter to him (why should they when they’re free and limitless?)
What? Stingy Biden didn’t give him any nukes? /s
“The Army has 1,106 Patriot launchers. In 2010, 483 were in service. These are Cold War spares.”
A few thousand Russian drones will expend them all.
>>We will have to send the operators and technicians<<
Right? Wasn’t long ago some bone head here on FR got all sideways when I mentioned we already have boots on the ground in Ukraine.
This may currently be a proxy war between Russia and the U.S., but this is a slow spiral out of control.
We are being led by some really really stupid people.
The launchers are not expendables, anymore than an artillery tube is.
Putin bought drones and ammunition from Iran and North Korea respectively
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