The Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package, valued at approximately $1 billion, includes air defense interceptors, artillery rounds, armored vehicles, and anti-tank weapons, among other items.
The package includes:
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- RIM-7 and AIM-9M missiles for air defense;
- Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;
- Small arms and additional rounds of small arms ammunition, including .50 caliber rounds to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);
- Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
- 155mm artillery rounds, including High Explosive and Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions rounds;
- 105mm artillery rounds;
- 60mm mortar rounds;
- Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles;
- Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs);
- High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);
- Logistics support vehicles;
- Tactical vehicles to tow and haul equipment;
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
- Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
- Precision aerial munitions;
- Airfield support equipment;
- Anti-armor mines;
- Claymore anti-personnel munitions;
- Demolitions munitions for obstacle clearing;
- Night vision devices;
- Spare parts, field equipment, training munitions, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment.
It should be noted that after the signing of the aid bill, the path to resuming stable arms deliveries to Ukraine is once again open. Furthermore, practice has shown that only minutes elapsed between the signing of the bill by Joe Biden and the provision of assistance.
It should be noted that the Pentagon has previously officially stated that the first package of assistance in this new "series" will focus on "the most urgent needs," and its contents have been formulated in close cooperation with Ukraine.
The transfer of weaponry, as indicated by the US Department of Defense, will take only a few days.
Earlier Defense Express reported that the $60.84 billion aid funding bill for Ukraine. About $23 billion is intended to replenish U.S. weapons stockpiles, $11 billion is to finance U.S. operations in the area, and about $14 billion is to purchase modern weapons and defense systems. Ukraine is allocated $23.2 billion directly for weapons.
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