Another $775M in Military Aid For Ukraine from U.S., Including High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile
Another $775M in Military Aid For Ukraine from U.S., Including High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile
Washington says it will support Kyiv "as long as it takes"
The U.S. announced Friday that it will send Ukraine an additional $775 million in military aid so it can continue to fight Russia as the war approaches its sixth month.
The package will include four High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), 50 Humvee-type vehicles, 16 howitzer heavy field artillery pieces, and 1,000 Javelins. The funding will include anti-armor rounds, 36,000 rounds of ammunition, and 15 surveillance drones.
The Defense Department said, in total, the U.S. has committed approximately $10.6 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration. Since 2014, the United States has committed more than $12.6 billion in security assistance to Ukraine.
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“As President Biden has made clear, we will support Ukraine as they defend their democracy for as long as it takes,” the statement read. “The United States will continue to work with its Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with key capabilities to meet Ukraine’s evolving battlefield requirements.”
Defense News reported that the package will include the AGM-88 high-speed anti-radiation missile. The missile “will allow Ukrainian forces to target Russian radars in the artillery-focused war. The disclosure marks the first time the Pentagon has discussed its provision of high-speed anti-radiation missiles to Ukraine in detail.”
A senior U.S. official said Ukrainians integrated these missiles, with American assistance, onto their "MiG aircraft," The Drive reported.
Fast Facts:
The AGM-88 HARM or high-speed anti-radiation missile, is an air-to-surface tactical missile designed to seek and destroy enemy radar-equipped air defense systems.
The AGM-88 can detect, attack and destroy a target with minimum aircrew input. The proportional guidance system that hones in on enemy radar emissions has a fixed antenna and seeker head in the missile nose. A smokeless, solid-propellant, dual-thrust rocket motor propels the missile.
A senior U.S. defense official said Ukrainians have used the missiles on their MiGs, even though the missiles are produced in the West.
“So they have actually successfully integrated it,” the official said, according to The Drive. “[This] is something that we determined would be technically feasible. And based on that feasibility determination, we provided them with this capability. So this is actually the second tranche of HARMs that we're providing."
TREND FORECAST: Gerald Celente has said the U.S. is not fighting a proxy war with Russia; the U.S. is at war with Russia.
As we have noted in Trends Journal articles going back to 30 April 2014, following the United States orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych, there was NO NEED FOR NATO.
And that the expansion of NATO would lead to conflict with Russia. We wrote: “NATO has gone on too long. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established on April 4, 1949, as a defensive alliance whose purpose was to defend Western Europe in the event of a Soviet invasion. As NATO’s first secretary general put it, NATO was formed in order to keep the Russians out of Western Europe and the Americans in.
“Instead of disbanding NATO when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Washington dramatically expanded NATO. In violation of the Reagan-Gorbachev agreements, the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush regimes added constituent parts of the former Soviet empire to NATO—Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. France, taken out of NATO by General de Gaulle, rejoined in April 2009, 18 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, along with Croatia and Albania. Currently, the Obama regime is working to incorporate into NATO two former Soviet Republics—Ukraine and Georgia.”