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Biden Administration Announces Significant New Security Assistance for Ukraine (www.defense.gov)
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[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Incredibly odd choice of weaponry.

RIM-7

Ground-to-Air anti-missile missile. Always nice to see more missile defense.

and AIM-9M missiles for air defense;

Wait wut? Wikipedia says this is the famous "Sidewinder" missile, an air-to-air missile. This suggests that Ukraine is getting ready for air-to-air engagements.

Wikipedia says these are short range Air-to-Air missiles, AIM-9 specifically being the well known "Sidewinder" missile. This suggests that Ukraine is getting ready for air-to-air engagements of some kind.

including .50 caliber rounds to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS);

Some kind of anti-drone system I'm not aware of. Good to see them trying to work on anti-drone.

Airfield support equipment;

There's clearly aircraft support coming in.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

and AIM-9M missiles for air defense

AIM-9 missiles can also be fired from NASAMS ground-based launchers, which Ukraine operates. You don't get nearly the same range, but, if you have a giant pile of missiles, it is nice to have multiple ways to use them.