L’amministrazione Biden annuncia un nuovo pacchetto storico di assistenza alla sicurezza per l’Ucraina
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3757794/biden-administration-announces-historic-new-security-assistance-package-for-ukr/
di coosacat
5 Comments
>The capabilities in this announcement, which totals up to $6 billion, include:
>Additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems;
>Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
>Equipment to integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine’s air defense systems;
>Counter-UAS equipment and systems;
>Munitions for laser-guided rocket systems;
>Multi-mission radars;
>Counter-artillery radars;
>Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
>155mm and 152mm artillery rounds;
>Precision aerial munitions;
>Switchblade and Puma Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);
>Tactical vehicles to tow weapons and equipment;
>Demolition munitions;
>Components to support Ukrainian production of UAS and other capabilities;
>Small arms and additional small arms ammunition; and
>Ancillary items and support for training, maintenance, and sustainment activities.
Is this in addition to the $60 billion package?
Hopefully everything’s already been sitting in Poland and is on its way to the AFU already.
🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇸
As I understand it this is funding of new production of the items mentioned. At a value of 6 billion it funds a heck of a lot of munitions even taking into account the cost of an individual Patriot missile.
The key phrasing here is:
>**This announcement represents the beginning of a contracting process to acquire additional priority capabilities for Ukraine**
Many of the items in this list are a long ways from being deliverable. This is not a “deliver tomorrow” package, but a mix of deliver in 2024-2026 (or later) timeframe, depending on the item.
This is the $6 billion Ukrainian Security Assistance Initiative package unofficially revealed yesterday. These are orders being placed for new builds for future delivery – *this specific stuff* will not arrive for months or years.
This is also separate from Presidential Drawdown Authority, where the U.S. sends munitions and equipment that already exist in its inventory. The $1 billion package announced Wednesday comes from that fund and is being delivered immediately, and will likely be followed up by package after package, probably announced every week or two.
I *believe* the total drawdown authority has been raised to $7.8 billion for this fiscal year. What I do not know are the legal specifics of how/whether the money allocated for procurement and operations and maintenance can substitute for drawdown authority (there is a lot of money allocated there: some $13.3 billion under procurement and $34.2 billion under O&M, of which $13.8 billion is going to the USAI, $6 billion of which is being spent in this package right here).