The newly announced USA weapons package for Ukraine is one of the largest, most significant we've seen yet. It includes the procurement of ammunition for Ukraine's Russian made legacy systems, now they can't get it from Russia. Several Eastern European countries make the ammunition and the USA is going to foot the bill to pay for the production. Here is the total package, which is a combination of Presidential Drawdown and USAI, in the amount of $1.85 Billion!
- 1 Patriot Air Defense battery and an undisclosed amount of ammunition.
- Undisclosed amount of GMRLS for HIMARS.
- 500 Excalibur GPS 155mm artillery rounds.
- 10, 120mm Mortar Systems, with 10,000 120mm mortar rounds.
- 10, 82mm Mortar Systems.
- 10, 60mm Mortar Systems.
- 37 Cougar MRAP vehicles.
- 120 HMMVs.
- 6 Armored Utility trucks.
- Undisclosed number of Claymore and demolition munitions.
- Undisclosed number of night visions and optics.
- Undisclosed number of tactical, secure communications systems.
- Undisclosed number of body armor systems.
- 45,000, 152mm artillery rounds.
- 20,000, 122mm artillery rounds.
- 50,000, 122mm GRAD rockets.
- 100,000, 125mm tank rounds.
- SATCOM terminals and services.
That's an extremely large package of the exact items that the Ukrainians can use to make the Russian winter war effort an absolute nightmare.