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The Biden administration launched on Monday a recent lethal abet bundle for Ukraine totaling about $1.7 billion and largely consisting of missiles and ammunition for missile, artillery and air protection programs the US has beforehand equipped to Ukraine.
The US is committing $1.5 billion in contemporary weapons and equipment to Ukraine by the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which can consist of “capabilities to enhance Ukraine’s air defenses, fires, and anti-tank weapons, to boot to funding to withhold equipment beforehand dedicated by the US,” based mostly fully on a Defense Division data commence.
The Defense Division is moreover sending Ukraine as a lot as $200 million worth of weapons and equipment straight from US Division of Defense stockpiles by Presidential Drawdown Authority, which comprises “air protection interceptors; munitions for rocket programs and artillery; and anti-tank weapons,” based mostly fully on the details commence.
The administration says this is their 20th “USAI bundle and sixty-2nd tranche of kit to be equipped from DoD inventories for Ukraine and since August 2021,” based mostly fully on the commence.
The USAI bundle comprises missiles for Ukraine’s National Developed Floor-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), a key air protection platform.
It moreover comprises ammunition for Ukraine’s Excessive Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), a weapons platform that Ukraine has only in the near previous been the usage of to strike successfully in Russian territory.
The bundle moreover comprises artillery ammunition, surely one of Ukraine’s high requests.
