Pentagon sending Ukraine these weapons in $2B package on war's 1-year mark

Yeah keep it coming Joe, the Ukraine people can open up more Black Market Baby farms!!

Perhaps after the failed pullout in Afghanistan, they can recoup the billions in military equipment left behind!

February 24 2023
https://insidedefense.com/insider/us-commits-2b-weapons-package-ukraine-anniversary-russian-invasion

The Defense Department announced a $2 billion
security assistance package to Ukraine today on
the one-year anniversary of the ongoing Russian
invasion, including additional unmanned drones,
counter-drone systems, precision ammunition &
electronic warfare detection equipment.

The package will be provided by working directly
with defense contractors under the Ukraine Security
Assistance Initiative, rather than immediately trans-
fer weapons from U.S. stocks.

The new package includes:

 Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery
Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
 Additional 155mm artillery rounds;
 Munitions for laser-guided rocket systems;
 CyberLux K8 unmanned aerial systems;
 Switchblade 600 UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System);
 Altius-600 UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System);
 Jump 20 UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System);
 Counter-UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) &
electronic warfare detection equipment;
 Mine clearing equipment;
 Secure communications support equipment;
 Funding for training, maintenance & sustainment.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin released a statement
marking the one-year anniversary of the conflict & high-
lighting the more than $32 billion in security assistance
the United States has committed in the past year.

“The United States has rallied the world to support Ukraine
& hold Russia accountable,” he said.

Austin said the United States has specifically provided
more than 1,600 Stinger anti-aircraft systems, over 8,500
Javelin anti-tank systems, 232 howitzers, 38 HIMARS &
more than two million rounds of artillery ammunition.

Additionally, he noted, the United States has pledged to
provide one Patriot air-defense battery, eight National
Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, 109 Bradley
Infantry Fighting Vehicles, 31 Abrams tanks & 90 Stryker
Armored Personnel Carriers.

Many of the systems funded through the USAI, however,
will not reach Ukraine for many months, possibly a year
or two. Austin also did not address Ukraine’s request for
combat aircraft though DOD officials have said conver-
sations continue.

The defense secretary noted the work of the 50-nation
Ukraine Contact Group, through which U.S. allies have
committed more than $20 billion in security assistance
to Ukraine, including hundreds of tanks, thousands of
other armored vehicles, hundreds of artillery systems &
air defense capabilities.

Austin has said the weapons that have been flowing into
Ukraine via rapid transfers from U.S. stocks are to be in
place for a “spring offensive” intended to dislodge Rus-
sian forces from their positions in the eastern part of the
country.

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