The Defense Department announced additional security assistance support to ensure Ukraine has the tools it needs to prevail in its fight against Russian aggression.

The capabilities in the PDA package include:

  • Air-to-ground munitions

  • Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)

  • 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition

  • Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) missiles

  • Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems

  • M1117 Armored Security Vehicles

  • Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles

  • Light tactical vehicles

  • Armored bridging systems

  • Small arms

  • Patrol boats

  • Demolitions equipment and munitions;

  • Spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.

This is the Biden Administration’s sixty-sixth tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I just saw you added a link to what those air-to-ground munitions are: JSOW glide bombs. Russia has been using their glide bombs to good effect, I’m glad to see Ukraine is getting more† as well. They are one of the proven effective tools for this war, given the non-permissive air environment both countries find themselves in.

    †They have had access to the small diameter glide bomb