The U.S. has approved a new $500 million weapons aid package, which includes providing Ukraine with more Stinger and Javelin missiles as well as Bradley and Stryker vehicles as it continues its counteroffensive operation.
“This package, valued at up to $500 million, includes key capabilities to support Ukraine’s counteroffensive operations, strengthen its air defenses to help Ukraine protect its people, as well as additional armored vehicles, anti-armor systems, critical munitions, and other equipment to help Ukraine push back on Russia’s war of aggression,” the Pentagon wrote in a statement on Tuesday.
Along with the Stinger and Javelin missiles, Ukraine will also receive additional munitions for RTX’s [RTX] Patriot air defense systems and more ammunition for Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built HIMARS launchers.
The new package specifically includes providing Ukraine with 30 more BAE Systems-built Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and 25 additional General Dynamics Land Systems’ [GD] Stryker armored fighting vehicles.
The latest security assistance deal also includes sending more 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds, TOW and HARM missiles, anti-armor rockets, precision aerial munitions, small arms and over 22 million rounds of small arms ammunition.
The new package announcement follows the Pentagon’s recent confirmation it has miscalculated the value of weapons aid provided to Ukraine by $6.2 billion (Defense Daily, June 21).
Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh has said the department plans to use the available funds for future security assistance packages.
“During the department’s regular oversight of our execution of presidential drawdown authority for Ukraine, we discovered inconsistencies in equipment valuation for Ukraine. In a significant number of cases, services used replacement costs rather than net book value, thereby overestimating the value of the equipment drawn down from U.S. stocks and provided to Ukraine,” Singh said during a press briefing last week.