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US to Send Ukraine Dozens of Bradleys in $2.85B Aid Package
AP ^ | 05-JAN-2023 | AP

Posted on 01/05/2023 11:35:59 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas

The U.S. will send Ukraine nearly $3 billion in military aid, in a massive new package that will for the first time include several dozen Bradley fighting vehicles, U.S. officials said Thursday, in the Biden administration's latest step to send increasingly lethal and powerful weapons to help Ukraine beat back Russian forces.

The aid — totaling about $2.85 billion — is the largest in a series of packages of military equipment that the Pentagon has pulled from its stockpiles to send to Ukraine. It is aimed at getting as much to the Ukrainian forces as possible during the winter months, before spring sets in and an expected increase in fighting begins.

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"The US will provide its Bradley Fighting Vehicles while Germany is sending its Marder vehicles, the leaders said Thursday in a joint statement. Germany also will provide Ukraine a Patriot battery — the second headed to the country after the US said last month that it would send one of the powerful air-defense systems."
1 posted on 01/05/2023 11:35:59 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

I don’t know how all this is possible.

The RuZZian trolls said NATO was out of arms to send to Ukraine.


2 posted on 01/05/2023 11:38:45 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Sounds good to me.


3 posted on 01/05/2023 11:42:10 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
How 'bout you Speedy? Do you still have tax dollars to send to the Ukraine? Myself I'm all tapped out.

4 posted on 01/05/2023 11:42:12 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Of course, that equipment will have to be replaced.

Ka-ching!


5 posted on 01/05/2023 11:43:48 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

And the Ukes already know how to operate all of these weapons systems, exactly how? Or are they going to be manned by American and Hessian mercenaries?


6 posted on 01/05/2023 11:44:20 AM PST by OKSooner (Don't try to beat the cops at their own game.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Remember, boys and girls:


7 posted on 01/05/2023 11:46:15 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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Yep one should have disdain for a dictator who has nukes pointed at you.


8 posted on 01/05/2023 11:47:38 AM PST by FreshPrince
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To: SpeedyInTexas

GIBS-ME-DAT MO’ BILLIONS!


9 posted on 01/05/2023 11:48:10 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

With all this stuff from different countries what consideration has been given to this myriad of logistics systems and who trains the Ukrainians?


10 posted on 01/05/2023 11:48:23 AM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Sick of it.

They raise our taxes but keeping throwing money around like we’re drowning in it.

Maybe we can quit throwing money around instead squeezing more out of the taxpayer— things are getting more and more expensive.


11 posted on 01/05/2023 11:51:42 AM PST by Irenic
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The RuZZian trolls said NATO was out of arms to send to Ukraine.

I haven't seen a lot of that - but you're a known, subject obsessed liar who knows nobody here... the very definition of a troll.

I know all about Bradleys. They take many weeks of intensive training before you ever get in one - that already has a crew, commander and an existing maintenance infrastructure.

And they take LOTS of maintenance, with lots of parts, and need big motorpools with lots of people who kmow what they're doing.

TOW missiles and HE 20 mike-mike is expensive... and you need training to shoot/mainta8n both.

Good luck.

12 posted on 01/05/2023 11:51:47 AM PST by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Retain Mike

See post 12.

Bradleys won’t do a thing for them. I doubt they’ll even get any on the field at all.

The MOS for the Bradley hasn’t even existes for years. This is offloading - I’m wondering who’s making out.


13 posted on 01/05/2023 11:56:19 AM PST by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Retain Mike

The life of the armored vehicle in the conflict of such intensity is too short to care about logistics.


14 posted on 01/05/2023 11:58:23 AM PST by NorseViking
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To: Jeff Chandler

15 posted on 01/05/2023 11:58:35 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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So Tucker is “RuZZian” too... n00b troll?


16 posted on 01/05/2023 12:00:40 PM PST by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

https://aviationphotodigest.com/amarg-inventory-search/

Yep. Completely bare, no inventory remains……
ROFLOL


17 posted on 01/05/2023 12:01:02 PM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: Jeff Chandler
Remember, boys and girls:



18 posted on 01/05/2023 12:01:28 PM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
How 'bout you Speedy? Do you still have tax dollars to send to the Ukraine? Myself I'm all tapped out.

I suspect most of the Zelensky Fan Club on here are not American taxpayers. In fact, a lot of them hate Americans, but love our money that the left so freely gives for their own grifting efforts.

19 posted on 01/05/2023 12:04:18 PM PST by Allegra
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To: AAABEST

25mm

I knew it was bigger than 20, just looked it up. I’ve got an empty casing from a live fire event I attended 30+ years ago.


20 posted on 01/05/2023 12:04:44 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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