Canada has come close to making a final decision on supplying Ukraine with the CRV7 unguided aircraft rockets, which are based on the American Hydra 70 unguided rocket. This was stated by the Minister of National Defense of Canada, Bill Blair at briefing at the military base in Edmonton.
The Department of National Defense of Canada is currently assessing how safe it is to transport the CRV7 rockets and which is the best way to do it.
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"We are doing the work right now to make sure that those munitions can be safely transported. And once that has been determined and that should be only a matter of days. We will move as quickly as possible to get all of that resource to Ukraine as quickly as possible," Blair noted.
In February, Canadian opposition MPs from the Conservative Party proposed an initiative to provide Ukraine with a significant amount of aviation munitions. Canada has been disposing the CRV7 rockets so far. This process began in summer of 2021. Canadian journalists claimed that currently only 8,000 CRV7 rockets are in good condition and have combat parts, while the rest have either been disposed or dismantled.
"Instead of making Canadians pay millions of dollars to decommission these weapons, they should be given to Ukraine to use them in the defense of sovereignty," leader of the opposition Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre said.
Thanks to the fact that the CRV7 rockets are based on the Hydra 70 unguided rocket, they can be launched from the same blocks. These modules with the original American rocket are already integrated under a wing of Ukrainian helicopters. In addition, the CRV7 can be used to make ground mini-MRLS. In general, the CRV7 is considered to be a fairly successful unguided rocket. Due to a more powerful engine as well as other changes, the rocket's range and accuracy are higher than in the original Hydra 70 munition.
Earlier Defense Express reported that russia had conducted over 1000 chemical attacks in Ukraine since start of full-scale war.
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