Ukrainian artillerymen of the Aidar battalion work with artillery shells on a front line position near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on April 22, 2023. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP)
Warzone/The Drive: Over Four Million Rounds Of Heavy Ammo Committed To Ukraine From U.S. So Far
Beyond artillery shells, rockets, mortars and tank rounds, the U.S. will provide Ukraine with more than 200 million small arms rounds.
The U.S. has committed more than 4.4 million artillery shells, tank rounds, rockets and mortars, plus another 200 million rounds of small arms ammunition to Ukraine to assist its fight against the Russians.
And that doesn’t include an unspecified number of 120mm and 105mm tank rounds and Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rounds for the 38 U.S.-donated M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS.
Add it all up, and it weighs more than 103,000 tons.
The munitions are part of more than $36.1 billion in security assistance committed to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration, including more than $35.4 billion since the beginning of Russia’s full-on invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
This includes more than 1.5 million standard 155mm howitzer rounds as well as 7,000 M982 Excalibur guided rounds and 14,000 Remote Anti-Armor Mine System (RAAMS) projectiles and over 450,000 105mm artillery rounds.
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WNU Editor: The problem with all of these commitments is that Ukraine needs this ammo now. Not later this year or the next.
Update: Talk about timing. A few weeks ago the EU made a commitment to supply Ukraine one million shells. In the Financial Times today (it is behind a paywall) there is a report detailing how this promise to provide all of this ammo is now collapsing.
2 comments:
That is why Joe is talking to the SKs. To beg for more ammo.
You only judge the EU countries by what they actually do. Never on what they say
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