Last updated on July 18th, 2023 at 01:50 pm
President Biden is sending another $300 million in aid to Ukraine including drones, armored vehicles, and machine guns.
The new aid will include Puma unmanned aerial systems — hand-launched lightweight drones with a range of about a dozen miles that can fly for about two hours — providing Ukrainian infantry with extended reconnaissance capabilities. The Pentagon also intends to send Ukraine “nonstandard†machine guns, meaning the weapons aren’t regularly used by the U.S. military.
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The United States will send armored Humvees, night-vision devices, thermal imagery systems, tactical secure communications systems, commercial satellite imagery services, medical supplies and Switchblade drones — small unmanned aircraft packed with explosives that crash into targets such as tanks in “kamikaze†fashion.
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