{"id":259253,"date":"2022-09-29T07:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T07:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259253"},"modified":"2022-10-01T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:16:00","slug":"pentagon-to-double-number-of-himars-rocket-systems-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259253","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to double number of HIMARS rocket systems for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Sept 28, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Pentagon says it is doubling the number of deadly HIMARS rocket systems sent to Ukraine,\u00a0as part of a new military aid package worth $1.1 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pentagon made the announcement on Wednesday, saying it is committed to sending another 18 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

HIMARS systems are intended to be a \u201ccore component of Ukraine\u2019s fighting force in the future,\u201d a senior US\u00a0defense official told reporters, adding that this new tranche will take a \u201cfew years\u201d to build and deliver.<\/p>\n

The recent arms package will take between six months and two years to deliver and require defense contractors to restart or intensify manufacturing, the official said.<\/p>\n

The United States has already delivered 16 of the systems, capable of hitting targets with precision of a “recognized and proven range” of up to 300 kilometers, according to its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n

The most recent package of orders for US military suppliers also includes 150 armored vehicles, 150 tactical vehicles for towing weapons, trucks and trailers, according to a Defense Department statement.<\/p>\n

The military package “represents a multi-year investment in critical capabilities to build the enduring strength of Ukraine’s Armed Forces” as they continue to fight Russian army, the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n

The new package took the total US military aid to Ukraine to $16.2 billion, since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a military campaign in the country.<\/p>\n

Separately, the Pentagon said Wednesday that Washington intends to increase production of \u201cground-based long range fires, air defense systems, air-to-ground munitions, and other capabilities\u201d needed to sustain Ukraine\u2019s military for the long haul.<\/p>\n

Russia has constantly warned the US and its Western allies against sending weapon to Ukraine, which it\u00a0says prolongs the war in the country.<\/p>\n

Putin also warned that the Russian forces will expand the list of targets it will attack in Ukraine if the West countries to provided Kiev with long-range weapons.<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, however, said the commitment to keep supplying weapons shows “we will not be deterred from supporting Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Russia warned that Washington would cross a \u201cred line,” and become \u201ca party to the conflict” if it supplied Ukraine with longer-range missiles,<\/p>\n

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The additional HIMARS will be part of a new U.S. weapons package worth over a billion dollars. As Putin warns that if the West sends more long-range weapons Russia will be forced to expand its list of targets <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":256025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259254,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259253\/revisions\/259254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}