“Pentagon has suspended the supply of many types of missiles to Ukraine. Among them are both air defense and front. About it reports NBC News. According to sources of the publication, weapons that are suspended, includes: dozens of Patriot interceptors; Thousands of 155 mm of fragmentation and foot shells for howitzers; more than 100 hellfire missiles; more than 250 GMLRS high -precision missiles; dozens of lands-to-air rockets Stinger”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
Pentagon has suspended the supply of many types of missiles to Ukraine. Among them are both air defense and front.
About it reports NBC News.
According to sources of the publication, the weapons whose supply is suspended includes:
- Dozens of Patriot interceptors;
- Thousands of 155 mm of fragmentation and foot shells for howitzers;
- more than 100 hellfire missiles;
- more than 250 GMLRS high -precision missiles;
- Dozens of landscapes of “Earth-Air” Styinger, AIM-Air-Air Class rockets and grenade launchers.
“Some deliveries are already in the region, but have been stopped before the transfer of Ukraine,” the sources said.
It should be noted that the above weapons are used both for air defense and fighting at the front. In particular, air defense includes:
- Patriot interceptors-Land-Air Land Missiles Far Radius;
- Stinger missiles – portable missiles of the Earth -Air Class, near radius;
- Rockets-Air-Air class rockets are installed on planes, also used to combat air purposes.
As for land fights, the list is:
- 155 mm howy ammunition-artillery shells that are used for strikes for land purposes.
- Hellfire rockets-controlled Air-Earth missiles, anti-tank or for strikes for fortified purposes.
- GMLRS (Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System) – High -precision HIMARS RSSUs, strike for land purposes.
- Grenade launchers are a melee, also against terrestrial purposes.
According to the NBC, the order for the suspension of rockets and ammunition to Ukraine was given by the head of the Pentagon Pete Hegset. It happened against the backdrop of concern about the US Armed Forces reserves.
Hegset has ordered a few weeks after he published a memorandum demanding that you check US ammunition reserves that were depleted after many years of supplies to America with tools to Ukraine, as well as for almost two years of military operations in the Middle East.
According to two Pentagon officials and two congress representatives, the supply of ammunition and other weapons can be suspended before the assessment is completed, and if the ammunition is lacking or they are needed in other parts of the world, they can be delayed for longer.
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