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With a New Security Aid Package From the US Ukraine Gets Cluster Munitions, Armored Vehicles, Artillery

Pentagon announces another $800 million aid package for Ukraine
Pentagon announces another $800 million aid package for Ukraine

The US Department of Defense announced additional security assistance package worth $800 million to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs on Friday. The military aid package will include cluster munitions, armored vehicles, and other types of ammunition

That is according to official statement published on the official web-site of US DoD.

This authorization is the Biden Administration's forty-second drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.

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"This package will provide Ukraine with additional artillery systems and ammunition, including highly effective and reliable dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM), on which the Administration conducted extensive consultations with Congress and our Allies and partners. It also includes additional air defense munitions, armored vehicles, anti-armor weapons, and other equipment to help Ukraine protect its people and counter Russia's ongoing war of aggression," the DoD statement reads.

With a New Security Aid Package From the US Ukraine Gets Cluster Munitions, Armored Vehicles, Artillery, Defense Express
Pentagon announces $800 million aid package for Ukraine, including cluster munitions

According to Pentagon, the capabilities in this package include:

  • Additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems;
  • AIM-7 missiles for air defense;
  • Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
  • Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
  • 31 155mm Howitzers;
  • 155mm artillery rounds, including DPICM, and 105mm artillery rounds;
  • 32 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles;
  • 32 Stryker Armored Personnel Carriers;
  • Mine clearing equipment;
  • Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
  • Javelin and other anti-armor systems and rockets;
  • Precision aerial munitions;
  • Penguin Unmanned Aerial Systems;
  • 27 tactical vehicles to recover equipment;
  • 10 tactical vehicles to tow and haul equipment;
  • Demolitions munitions and systems for obstacle clearing;
  • Small arms and over 28 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades;
  • Spare parts and other field equipment.
The DPICM M864 shell and its M42 submunition, Defense Express
The DPICM M864 shell and its M42 submunition / Image credit: CAT UXO

As the statement reads, 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.

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