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Equality-Breaking Weapons: US Will Supply UAVs to Ukraine | Israel today

2022-06-02T08:20:40.827Z


The "Predator" type aircraft is capable of carrying special armament like the Hellfire missiles and has a flight capability of about 30 hours • Training in the advanced weapon system takes months, so it will take a long time before it becomes operational in Ukraine


Following the US administration's policy of providing advanced weapons for Ukraine, the White House announced that it would in the coming days submit a draft deal to sell UAVs for congressional approval, according to information published in the Reuters news agency.

These are four General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle units, as a medium-range UAV that is an update to a "predator" capable of carrying special armament like the Hellfire missiles and with a flight capability of about 30 hours that allows it to gather information for a long time.

Today, the aircraft is in use by the US military and its sale to Kiev still needs to be approved by the US Department of Defense, the Pentagon. Training in the advanced weapon system takes months, so according to the source, It will be a long time before it becomes operational in the territory of Ukraine.

It is an egalitarian weapon in the campaign, which for the Russian invader got much more complicated than expected when on February 24 it decided to conduct the widest maneuver on European soil since World War II. After almost 100 days of war the Kremlin was forced to redesign the campaign The Ukrainians, the Russian army is concentrating the war effort in the Donbas region in the east.

According to official figures from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense updated to Wednesday, the lost of the Russian army stands at 31,000 soldiers, 1,361 tanks, 208 fighter jets and 175 helicopters.

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Source: israelhayom

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