Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

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Germany has announced that they will deliver the following additional components of military aid to Ukraine by the end of 2024.

2x IRIS-T SLM Air Defense Batteries
2x IRIS-T SLS Air Defense Batteries
10x Gepard Air Defense Systems
30x Leopard 1A5 MBTs
12x Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzers
4x Zuzana 2 howitzers
400x MRAPS
Logistics vehicles
155mm artillery shells
35mm ammunition for Gepards
Small arms
Small arms ammunition
1x Field hospital

Drones, air defense, and artillery systems: Germany announces aid to Ukraine by the end of the year

Germany has announced military aid for Ukraine. It includes weapons that will be delivered by the end of 2024

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Politico is reporting an extremely important development. The Biden administration is "considering" sending JASSM cruise missiles to Ukraine to be used by Ukraine's newly acquired F-16s.

Why is this an important development? Two reasons.

1. This reporting means that JASSMs WILL be delivered. There has not been a single article of weaponry that the U.S. media hasn't sent to Ukraine, after first leaking to the public through the media that they were "considering" sending it. This is what they did with Bradleys, Strykers, HIMARS, F-16s, Patriots, ATACMS, etc. JASSMs are are inbound. It's simply a matter of time.

2. JASSMs are a HUGE problem for Russia. Their air defense systems have had a hard time dealing with British and French Stormshadow cruise missiles and JASSM performs similarly. The difference is that USA has the ability to provide MANY more JASSMs to Ukraine, to give the Ukrainians another long range option to compliment ATACMS. USA has produced more than 2000 standard range JASSM cruise missiles with a range of 370'ish kms. They are now producing JASSM-ER models with a range of up to 1000 kms and are in the process of producing the new JASSM-XR to further increase the weapons range. USA currently builds approximately 550 JASSMs per year and is increasing production to approximately 750 units per year, with a goal of producing more than 10,000 JASSMs.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/15/biden-missiles-ukraine-russia-00174147

JASSM / JASSM ER | Missile Threat

The JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) is a conventional, stealthy, air-launched ground attack cruise missile designed for the U.S. Air Force and international partners. An extended range version, AGM-158B JASSM-ER, was developed alongside the standard variant, and went into service...

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