Sakshi Tiwari – Eurasian Times April 15, 2022
Earlier this week, US President Joe Biden pledged an additional $800 million in military aid to Ukraine, broadening the scope of the systems offered, in a bid to include heavy artillery, Soviet-origin helicopters, and a barrage of lethal equipment.
Anticipating a lethal Russian military operation in Eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pleading with leaders in the US and Europe to give more lethal weapon systems that would aid his troops in delivering a decisive blow to the invading troops.
In the face of Ukraine’s stronger-than-expected fight, Russia has been unable to achieve most of its military objectives. However, alleged war crimes and atrocities against civilians by the Russian troops have triggered additional aid from the NATO countries, some of which include systems that were previously withheld.
The new package includes 11 Mi-17 helicopters that were supposed to be delivered to Afghanistan before the US-backed government fell apart last year. It also includes 155mm howitzers, 40,000 artillery rounds, counter-artillery radars, 200 armored personnel carriers, and 300 more “Switchblade” drones in the package
Even as these systems that are currently on their way to Ukraine could be expected to give more teeth to Ukraine’s fight, the United States could also dispatch its most advanced and lethal drones to Kyiv soon.
Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States told The Washington Post that she met with General Atomics executives last week to discuss the renowned Predator UAV and its heavier successor, the Reaper, as well as the smaller Gray Eagle.
She was quoted as saying “we discussed with General Atomics the prospects of increasing the capacity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the current situation in Ukraine”.
She did not reveal what kind of equipment Ukraine was looking for from General Atomics, only stating that Ukraine would prefer to “surprise Russia on the battlefield.”
However, the spokesperson for General Atomic, C. Mark Brinkley told the Washington Times that sending aircraft to Ukraine would require US government approval. He also stated that the “Ukrainian pilots already familiar with drone operations would not be ‘starting from scratch in learning how to fly them.”
While the manufacturer General Atomic has the drones ready to be transferred to Ukraine, the ball is in the US government’s court that has so far calibrated the aid transfer to Ukraine against what could constitute aggression by Russia. It has refused to transfer fighter jets to Ukraine, however, that could be substituted by the armed drones.
American Predators, Reapers for Ukraine?
Ukraine has deployed a large number of drones, many of which were purchased from Turkey, to carry out ambushes and aerial strikes on Russian troops. The Neptune missile strike on the Russian ship Moskva was also reportedly aided by the TB2 drones that distracted the adversary. The missile hit, which Moscow has denied, was also apparently observed by the drone, according to Forbes.
Reportedly, the Ukrainians used a Bayraktar TB-2 drone to distract the Moskva. The Ukrainian Navy introduced TB-2s into service in August 2021. /8 pic.twitter.com/icVFy8ePp1
— ChrisO (@ChrisO_wiki) April 14, 2022
General Atomics’ heavier drones could be a game-changer for Ukraine. The US could transfer the MQ-1 Predator or its more advanced successor, the formidable MQ-9 Reaper to the Ukrainian Air Force which has been relying on the Turkish medium-weight drone since the start of the invasion. It could also consider transferring to Ukraine the MQ-1C variant of the battle-proven Gray Eagle.
To put the advantage of an American drone for Ukraine in perspective, the Reaper can carry a payload of roughly 1.7 tons, which is more than ten times the capacity of the Bayraktar TB2. It can also carry surface-to-air missiles, guided bombs, and even heat-seeking air-to-air missiles which could prove to be lethal against the Russians.
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov had earlier cited “strike drones” as one type of system the country need last week, along with tanks, anti-ship missiles, artillery, and air defense systems.
The Joe Biden administration had also approved the shipment of Switchblade ‘loitering munitions’ to Ukraine last month which are drones that fly in observation mode, scouting for targets before crashing into one in a kamikaze strike. Switchblade drones are armed with explosives and flown into targets.
NEW: U.S. has delivered a "significant amount" of the first 100 Switchblade drones to Ukrainian troops and the kamikaze drones are being used in the field: senior U.S. defense official
U.S. is working hard to expedite the supplies of more of the drones that detonate over targets
— Jack Detsch (@JackDetsch) April 12, 2022
Additional switchblade drones for Ukraine indicate the success of aerial deployments other than the less than sufficient fleet of fixed-winged aircraft in Ukraine’s arsenal. Ukraine has also used its commercial drones to drop payloads on Russian targets.
With no signs of reductions in military operations from the Russian side and NATO’s hesitation of transferring fighter jets, heavily armed drones could bolster Ukraine’s combat capability on a battlefield that could tilt the balance in Kyiv’s favor.
We’ll be at nuclear war soon. The west is doing everything it can to invite it, likely to avoid the backlash coming for the untold millions of vaxxed yet to die. They’ve got away with several million dead so far but it won’t be quite so peaceful when hundreds of millions or billions die off. Also Putin and Russia are after them. They must fear revenge as there’ll not be much left for any NWO to take control of afterwards.
Gosh, if I were an Admiral in command of a battleship, cruiser, etc. I’d most likely be very aware of ‘distractions.’ Yeah, one lousy drone distracted us so we lost our ship. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
This is also bleeding an already bankrupt America.
looks like Russia has no choice but to pick the big stick not only in Ukraine but also in those who provide weapons to kill Russian soldiers as Putin has promised.
a couple of hits by Russians formidable weapons hopefully negotiations will be considered by cowards’ nato nations. sacrificing Ukrainian wasn’t a good idea in the first place. new-Jerusalem is not going to be a dream but rather a nightmare.
Notice the USA doesn’t give Ukraine anything of real impactful value like tanks, jets, bombers, missiles or submarines so they can demolish the Commies…just minor insignificant junk like pistols, rifles, helmets, drones, body armor, etc…That’s because its all a set up to drag out the war to create a new Holodomor as thousands/millions of Ukrainians get massacred & their towns/cities are razed..The Jews didn’t like all these Azov youth camps being established across Ukraine since 2014–training a new generation of thousands/millions of pro-white fascists…ergo,,,direct their Jewish-Communist agent Putin & Soviet Russia to invade & attempt to dismantle/destroy their nation….Remember, Soviet Russia is the base for the ‘World Without Nazism’ program–a Russian government agency headed by the Jew Boris Siegel…
So, we may finally see put to the test the theory that there are NO nuclear bombs. For example, if this news is news to you, see https://heiwaco.tripod.com/bomb.htm for a briefing. This is not to say there are no bombs per se. Just that “nuclear war’ is another hobgoblin — with a longevity longer than SARS-CoV-2, I assure you! — submitted by one old enough to recall “duck and cover” from grade school in the US.
Look, this is all phaff.
Far too late, and by US design. They don’t want Russia defeated and kicked of of UKraine, they want Russia to be bogged down, and this is on the fake news level.
These new fancy drones can’t be operated by UKraine Nazis. It takes time to train operators and even if they get into the war, they can be shot down like any other regular plane.
Russia has kept the lights on, the roads open, the phones are ringing and the Internet still works. If Russia wanted to, all this could be shut down in 2 days. Ignoring propaganda, the railways still work, but the Russians could destroy them and all the main roads.
As to the 40,000, or is it 60,000 Azov Nazis in the Dombas, they are cut off. No more food or ammo for them, and they’ll probably fight to the death, happy days, and the same for those in Mariupol.
You’ve got to be very careful with what you believe. We are only seeing and hearing a tiny fraction of what is really going on. Western fake news has a duty towards the NWO to tell lies. We had an ex UK military bod on BBC R4 Today saying the UKrianaians had beaten off the Russians outside Kiev. Mega lie, the Russians pulled back as a peace talks gesture.
For sure Russia used the wrong strategy from the start. They should’ve gone in hard, very hard, and even used a couple of tactical nukes, just so NATO had a choking fit.
We are this narrative that Russia is stretched, but they’ve used less than 10% of their available forces. Less than 100k of men against 400k of Nazis. Not only that, these Nazis have been NATO trained and armed for nearly 8yrs, and they are being led by NATO officers, and Russia is kicking their buttz.
My feeling is that Ruusia is going to hit more and more targets in Western UKraine. The Nazis have lost their ability to manoeuvre, they have no fuel. If we believed the stories about Russian planes getting shot down, and the the fact that the Nazis are running out of anti tank and manpads, then Russia must have lost 300 tanks and 300 planes… clearly, these success are mostly lies, and these weapons are clearly not that good as they claim, because they are running out of them, so what have they hit? They’ve used (or sold on) so many, the Russians should be on their knees by now.
I say they should’ve hit hard, but hats off to Russian military tactics. They’ve deployed their military to places which have tied down huge numbers of UKraine Nazis, such as Kiev. There was no substantial fighting, because the Russians had no intention to enter Kiev, but these Russian tactics were brilliant. The Nazi forces based in and around Kiev can’t move, they’ve no fuel, and even if they did move, they’d get picked off.
‘Nuclear war’? I doubt it. Let’s meet here a year from now to discuss it.
HA HA HA HA
USA FINANCING ITS WAR WITH
WORTHLESS FIAT MONEY HA HA !
The film sink the bismark was on TV today, my grandfather and his brother were there and they say the film is a lot of total balderdash, nothing like the truth.
We also learn today US servicemen may be employed en mass in Ukraine
US troops have ben subjected to the homosexual subliminal agenda
so many are raving poofters nancy boys homos and boys in pink trousers
the real men of Russia will slaughter them.
I live near the US lakenheath airbase, recently a US airplane dropped an egine off its wing while in flight Gypsies scrap metal dealers and those out for a quick profit have been searching for it
it was found in a farmers field.
Why are we involeved in this ukrain thing ?
Lets see if they can get them to the battlefield ? I cant find anything on who owns Eurasian Times.
After days of basically the same reporting/conclusion as per the Moskva, I highly doubt it.
My guess is sabotage or a secret (cia) torpedo or two.
Really hard to believe a couple of sub-sonic cruise missiles penetrated what was one of the most heavily defended ships in the entire world. Hey, who needs Billion dollar hypersonic missiles when we can sink their showboat with a couple million dollar throwaways..
Yeah, that’s the ticket..
The sinking of the Russian Cruiser could have been the last straw – and Russia has decided to go all out nuclear war – first strike.
Think about it – the west is not backing down – sending in massive arms into Ukraine.
IMO Russia is prepping for all out nuclear war – and you too should prep because of what is coming down the Albert C. Pike highway to hell.
Just remember when the nukes are lit off – God loves you.
Alan Donalson, yes some nuke films look like SFX/models. Indeed, Lookout Mountain military movie Studios, Laurel Canyon had full SFX capabilities.
This is not the Cold War, and, as such, it’s not Afghanistan all over again for the Russians and it’s not Vietnam all over again for the Americans. The NATO/US effort to extend the war indefinitely may well be pre-empted with a rather convincing barrage of Russian nuclear warheads.
The recent Russian-authored diplomatic communique sent directly to Biden makes it clear that further efforts to arm the Ukrainian side with lethal conventional weaponry would likely result in “unintended consequences.” Thereafter, the Russsains, responding quickly to well-esrtablished US/NATO threats, began to mobilize launchers for nuclear weapons, transporting them to the Ukrainian border.
To that end, the US/NATO bloc may extend the length of the war at their own risk.
i don’t get it.
so this is a special operation with limited freedom of effect, it prevents russia from defending against us-nato’s open ended help to ukraine, where they ship in whatever they want and also deceitfully operate bioweapon production facilities directly aimed at russian people.
not to mention thousands of western mercenaries hired and paid for by ziowest entities.
why not declare a proper war on ukraine and put in effect a no-fly cover over the entire airspace?
i would also whack a few of the shabbo embassies in kiev, just like amerigrunts did in belgrade, baghdad and hanoi in previous instances.
putin needs to ramp up the work rate instead of mewling about “our western colleagues and partners”.
hope that yarmulke is not crazy-glued on for life—trump’s syndrome as well.
“We’ve got him! Mission accomplished!”
Alec Bierbauer could hardly believe his eyes as he stood before a floor-to-ceiling TV at CIA Headquarters in Virginia, watching live video stream from an outpost in Afghanistan. ”
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2021-06-20/drone-evolution-afghan-war
So could these possible drones for Ukraine be operated from Virginia?
In which case no need to train the locals!
Even if a token Ukraine operator was filmed in Kiev on the BBC, who would ever know if Virginia
was the real source??
@I live near the US lakenheath airbase
Now home to 110 US Nuclear bombs. Sure you don’t want to move?
@Alan Donaldson,
The best source on that nuclear hoaxing is Miles Mathis:
http://mileswmathis.com/trinity.pdf
.
Putin should take out all
american satelites !
Where will the nukes hit in the US?
@ DANIEL MILLEN
if they are acurate : NY;Wash.DC,
Cheyenne Mount. + known
nuke stores (plenty) .
the chabads already left NY .
i think here southeuropa will be
spared .
‘In the face of Ukraine’s stronger-than-expected fight, Russia has been unable to achieve most of its military objectives.’
This is the usual crap, now a hopelessly outdated lie Have a look at yesterday’s Pravda:
https://english.pravda.ru/news/hotspots/151224-azovstal/.
Russia is in full control. Even today’s Guardian is admitting it:
‘Russia ‘offers Mariupol ceasefire’ so Ukrainians can surrender
The Russian defence ministry says it will offer a ceasefire in Mariupol on Wednesday to allow Ukrainian defenders holed up in the Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms, Reuters reports.
Russia continued on Tuesday to shell the plant, where a “dwindling number” of Ukraine forces were still holding out. Video showed smoke rising from the complex.
The defence ministry said it would begin a ceasefire at 2pm Moscow time on Wednesday (11am GMT) to give the Ukraine fighters the opportunity to surrender and leave unharmed.
Reuters noted that Russia claimed to have made the same offer on Tuesday, but “not a single Ukrainian soldier had accepted”.
The Ukraine president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has promised that his forces in Mariupol would “fight to the end” and ignore any surrender ultimatums from Russia.
Updated at 22.06 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/apr/19/russia-ukraine-war