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Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine [$2.5B]............
www.defense.gov ^ | April 4, 2023 | | Staff

Posted on 04/04/2023 10:50:25 AM PDT by Red Badger

Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces critical new security assistance for Ukraine. This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance with more ammunition for U.S.-provided HIMARS, air defense interceptors, and artillery rounds that Ukraine is using to defend itself, as well as anti-armor systems, small arms, heavy equipment transport vehicles, and maintenance support essential to strengthening Ukraine's defenders on the battlefield valued at up to $500 million.

In addition, we are announcing a significant package of air defense capabilities, as well as artillery and tank ammunition, mortar systems, rockets, and anti-armor systems using $2.1 billion in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) funds.

The Presidential Drawdown is the thirty-fifth such drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine that the Biden Administration has authorized since August 2021.

The capabilities in this package include:

Additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems;

Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);

155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;

120mm mortar rounds;

120mm and 105mm tank ammunition;

25mm ammunition;

Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;

Approximately 400 grenade launchers and 200,000 rounds of ammunition;

11 tactical vehicles to recover equipment;

61 heavy fuel tankers;

10 trucks and 10 trailers to transport heavy equipment;

Testing and diagnostic equipment to support vehicle maintenance and repair;

Spare parts and other field equipment.

Under USAI, the DoD will provide Ukraine with:

Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);

Nine counter-Unmanned Aerial System 30mm gun trucks;

10 mobile c-UAS laser-guided rocket systems;

Three air surveillance radars;

30mm and 23mm anti-aircraft ammunition;

130mm and 122mm artillery rounds;

122mm GRAD rockets;

Rocket launchers and ammunition;

120mm and 81mm mortar systems;

120mm, 81mm, and 60mm mortar rounds;

120mm tank ammunition;

Javelin anti-armor systems;

Anti-armor rockets;

Precision aerial munitions;

Approximately 3,600 small arms and more than 23,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition;

Seven tactical vehicles to recover equipment;

Eight heavy fuel tankers and 105 fuel trailers;

Armored bridging systems;

Four logistics support vehicles;

Trucks and ten trailers to transport heavy equipment;

Secure communications equipment;

SATCOM terminals and services;

Funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment.

Unlike Presidential Drawdown, USAI is an authority under which the United States procures capabilities from industry rather than delivering equipment that is drawn down from DoD stocks. The announcement of this USAI package represents the beginning of a contracting process to provide additional capabilities to Ukraine's Armed Forces.

The United States will continue to work with its Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its immediate battlefield needs and longer-term security assistance requirements.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: military; nato; russia; thiefinchief; ukraineuberalles; undeclaredwar; veterans; whatconstitution; zelensky; zelenskyy
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1 posted on 04/04/2023 10:50:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
WHAT THE F***!!!!

Russia will STILL kick Zelenskyy's ARSE.

2 posted on 04/04/2023 10:52:20 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Complete list:

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Fact Sheet on U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine

April 4, 2023

In total, the United States has committed $35.8 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the
beginning of the Biden Administration, including more than $35.1 billion since the beginning of
Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion on February 24, 2022.

United States security assistance committed to Ukraine includes:

• Over 1,600 Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
• Over 10,000 Javelin anti-armor systems;
• Over 58,000 other anti-armor systems and munitions;
• 160 155mm Howitzers and over 1,500,000 155mm artillery rounds;
• Over 6,500 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds;
• Over 14,000 155mm rounds of Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems;
• 100,000 rounds of 125mm tank ammunition;
• Over 50,000 152mm artillery rounds;
• Approximately 40,000 130mm artillery rounds;
• 40,000 122mm artillery rounds;
• 70,000 122mm GRAD rockets;
• 72 105mm Howitzers and over 450,000 105mm artillery rounds;
• Over 300 tactical vehicles to tow weapons;
• 54 tactical vehicles to recover equipment;
• 30 ammunition support vehicles;
• 14 armored bridging systems;
• 38 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and ammunition;
• 47 120mm mortar systems;
• 10 82mm mortar systems;
• 67 81mm mortar systems;
• 58 60mm mortar systems;
• Over 345,000 mortar rounds;
• Over 2,800 Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
• Over 1,800,000 rounds of 25mm ammunition;
• Rocket launchers and ammunition;
• Precision-guided rockets;
• 10 command post vehicles;
• One Patriot air defense battery and munitions;
• Eight National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) and munitions;
• Two HAWK air defense firing units and munitions;
• RIM-7 missiles for air defense;
• 12 Avenger air defense systems;
• Nine c-UAS gun trucks;
• 10 mobile c-UAS laser-guided rocket systems;
• Anti-aircraft guns and ammunition;
• Equipment to integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles, and radars with
Ukraine’s air defense systems;
• Equipment to sustain Ukraine’s existing air defense capabilities;
• High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);
• Precision aerial munitions;
• 4,000 Zuni aircraft rockets;
• 20 Mi-17 helicopters;
• 31 Abrams tanks;
• 45 T-72B tanks;
• 120mm and 105mm tank ammunition;
• 109 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles;
• Four Bradley Fire Support Team vehicles;
• Over 2,000 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);
• Over 100 light tactical vehicles;
• 60 trucks and 108 trailers to transport heavy equipment;
• Four logistics support vehicles;
• 89 heavy fuel tankers and 105 fuel trailers;
• 90 Stryker Armored Personnel Carriers;
• 300 M113 Armored Personnel Carriers;
• 250 M1117 Armored Security Vehicles;
• Over 500 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs);
• Six armored utility trucks;
• Mine clearing equipment;
• Over 35,000 grenade launchers and small arms;
• Over 175,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition;
• Over 100,000 sets of body armor and helmets;
• Switchblade Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);
• Phoenix Ghost UAS;
• CyberLux K8 UAS;
• Altius-600 UAS;
• Jump-20 UAS;
• Puma UAS;
• Scan Eagle UAS;
• Two radars for UAS;
• Laser-guided rocket systems and munitions;
• Unmanned Coastal Defense Vessels;
• Over 70 counter-artillery and counter-mortar radars;
• 20 multi-mission radars;
• Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems and equipment;
• Counter air defense capability;
• 21 air surveillance radars;
• Two Harpoon coastal defense systems;
• 62 coastal and riverine patrol boats;
• M18A1 Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
• C-4 explosives, demolition munitions, and demolition equipment for obstacle clearing;
• Obstacle emplacement equipment;
• Tactical secure communications systems and support equipment;
• Four satellite communications antennas;
• SATCOM terminals and services;
• Thousands of night vision devices, surveillance systems, thermal imagery systems,
optics, and laser rangefinders;
• Commercial satellite imagery services;
• Explosive ordnance disposal equipment and protective gear;
• Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear protective equipment;
• 100 armored medical treatment vehicles;
• Medical supplies to include first aid kits, bandages, monitors, and other equipment;
• Electronic jamming equipment;
• Field equipment, cold weather gear, generators, and spare parts;
• Funding for training, maintenance, and sustainment.

The United States also continues to work with its Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with
additional capabilities to defend itself.


3 posted on 04/04/2023 10:55:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Oh yeah, and the DISABLING of America's ability to defend its homeland (AND Taiwan's) continues..

DEPLETE our National Reserves of oil

DEPLETE our munitions by sending weapons to Ukraine AND THE AFGHANISTAN DEBACLE.

DEPLETE our troop strength will mandates and recruiting fails

ALL INTENTIONAL.

4 posted on 04/04/2023 10:56:37 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Red Badger

World War III gonna be so much fun

NATO will be in open combat with Russia before the 2024 election. /shiny side out


5 posted on 04/04/2023 10:56:51 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

Doesn’t Congress have to vote on on monetary disbursements? Or Joe now the Bank of the United States of America????


6 posted on 04/04/2023 10:57:12 AM PDT by vivenne
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Doesn’t Congress have to vote on on monetary disbursements? Or Joe now the Bank of the United States of America????

Congress is neutered. It's basically a ceremonial post.

7 posted on 04/04/2023 10:58:39 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: vivenne

“ Doesn’t Congress have to vote on on monetary disbursements?”

That’s in the old country, the one that’s now dead.

What needs to happen now is the defeat and overthrow of the new country that has taken its place.


8 posted on 04/04/2023 11:00:43 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Red Badger

Imagine if an ordinary American citizen asked for his very own TOW system to put on the ranch and defend it from Los Cartelistas.

The brusque “NYET” would come from DHS Uber Secretary Mayor-Kas. Serfs don’t git no ‘sault weapons!!

Funny how some Galician Banderist in Ookraine can get one on the arm.


9 posted on 04/04/2023 11:01:04 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Yea, but this is more profitable.


10 posted on 04/04/2023 11:01:24 AM PDT by bak3r
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To: Sirius Lee

It, like SCOTUS, is a rubber stamp for the people who installed the POTATUS and are arraigning Trump as we type.


11 posted on 04/04/2023 11:02:28 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Red Badger

How can a president award money over the purse string House ?


12 posted on 04/04/2023 11:07:17 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

People still have homes, food, and internet.

This madness will continue until that any one of the above is lost.


13 posted on 04/04/2023 11:07:22 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: Red Badger
Rybar in English @rybar_en · 21h Along the entire line of contact from Kherson Region to the DPR, there is an accumulation of men and equipment. The AFU can become more active in several directions at any moment, as Western countries urge Ukraine to attack.

https://twitter.com/rybar_en/status/1642991162792321025?cxt=HHwWgoC9tb7wic0tAAAA

On the readiness of the AFU for a large-scale offensive situation at the end of April 3, 2023

14 posted on 04/04/2023 11:11:59 AM PDT by silverleaf (It’s not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: Red Badger

Soon, all available at low wholesale prices for CASH or Bitcoin on the dark web.


15 posted on 04/04/2023 11:16:35 AM PDT by wrench
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To: Red Badger

Yet not a dime to protect school children.


16 posted on 04/04/2023 11:17:37 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Red Badger

pedoPIG will not stop until there is absolutely nothing left of the USA...nothing.


17 posted on 04/04/2023 11:28:01 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Red Badger

FLUSH ,democrats are great at Flushing


18 posted on 04/04/2023 11:38:26 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Ditto that!


19 posted on 04/04/2023 11:39:30 AM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: knarf

Stash

They build in slush funds


20 posted on 04/04/2023 11:39:52 AM PDT by combat_boots ( )
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