U.S. Announces $425M Aid Package for Ukraine
1 November, 2024 Stryker armored personnel carriers of the US military.
2017 year. Photo credits: U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
The U.S. Department of Defense announces an additional £425 million defense and assistance package for Ukraine. This package is the Biden Administration's sixty-ninth tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.
The package will include air defense systems, munitions for rocket systems and artillery, armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons. The capabilities in this announcement include:
- Munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS)
- Stinger missiles
- Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) equipment and munitions
- Air-to-ground munitions
- Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)
- 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition
- Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) missiles
- Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems
- Stryker Armored Personnel Carriers
- Small arms and ammunition
- Medical equipment
- Demolitions equipment and munitions; and
- Spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.
"The United States will continue to work together with some 50 Allies and partners through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and its associated Capability Coalitions to meet Ukraine's urgently needed battlefield requirements and defend against Russian aggression," the statement said.
The TOW family of guided missiles
It is worth noting the transfer of Stryker armored personnel carriers, which are actively used by Ukrainian paratroopers in the Kursk oblast. These vehicles are used to transport personnel to the front line.
Stryker wheeled armored fighting vehicles' family is developed and manufactured by the U.S. company General Dynamics Land Systems. In its basic version, Stryker armored fighting vehicles were accepted to service with the U.S.
M1126 Stryker armored personnel carrier and Oncilla armored vehicle of the Ukrainian military in the Kursk sector. August 2024. Photo credits: REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi
The United States also traditionally provides an aid package that strengthens Ukraine's air defense by transferring a missile to NASAMS.
In May, it became known that the Ukrainian military received the latest version of NASAMS 3 systems, which can use new AIM-9X missiles.
AIM-9X Block II missiles of the Ukrainian Air Force.
2024. Ukraine.
Frame from the video of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
In June, the United States elevated Ukraine as a priority recipient of anti-aircraft missiles for air defense systems.