{"id":261782,"date":"2022-11-29T08:22:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T08:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=261782"},"modified":"2022-12-01T06:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:46:35","slug":"america-could-send-100-mile-precision-strike-weapons-to-ukraine-that-would-let-kyiv-strike-behind-russian-lines-as-zelensky-tries-to-replenish-his-shrinking-weapons-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=261782","title":{"rendered":"America could send 100-mile precision strike weapons to Ukraine that would let Kyiv strike behind Russian lines as Zelensky tries to replenish his shrinking weapons haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Pentagon is considering a Boeing proposal to supply Ukraine with cheap bombs<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The proposed explosives can be fitted to\u00a0abundantly available rockets<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>U.S. and allied military inventories are shrinking, and Ukraine faces an increasing need for more sophisticated weapons to fight off Vladimir Putin&#8217;s invasion\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Jewers \u2013 Daily Mail Nov 28, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The United States could send weapons capable of 100-mile precision strikes to Ukraine, that would allow Kyiv to strike deep behind Russian lines &#8211;\u00a0as the West struggles to meet demand for more arms.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is considering a Boeing proposal to supply Ukraine with cheap, small precision bombs that are fitted onto abundantly available rockets &#8211; as president\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky works to replenish his shrinking arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing&#8217;s proposed system, dubbed Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), is one of about a half-dozen plans for getting new munitions into production for Ukraine and America&#8217;s Eastern European allies, industry sources said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and allied military inventories are shrinking, and Ukraine faces an increasing need for more sophisticated weapons as the war drags on into its ten month.<\/p>\n<p>GLSDB could be delivered as early as spring 2023, according to a document reviewed by Reuters and three people familiar with the plan. The West has been reluctant to provide Ukraine with such long-range weapons, out of fear that the conflict could escalate further.<\/p>\n<p>GLSDBs combines the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) with the M26 rocket motor, both of which are common in U.S. inventories.<\/p>\n<p>This would mean it could be launched from\u00a0from ground-based missile systems &#8211; such as the M270 MLRS or the HIMARS system.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Bush, the U.S. Army&#8217;s chief weapons buyer, told reporters at the Pentagon last week the Army was also looking at accelerating production of 155 millimeter artillery shells &#8211; currently only manufactured at government facilities &#8211; by allowing defense contractors to build them.<\/p>\n<p>The invasion of Ukraine drove up demand for American-made weapons and ammunition, while U.S. allies in Eastern Europe are &#8216;putting a lot of orders,&#8217; in for a range of arms as they supply Ukraine, Bush added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s about getting quantity at a cheap cost,&#8217; said Tom Karako, a weapons and security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.<\/p>\n<p>He said falling U.S. inventories help explain the rush to get more arms now, saying stockpiles are &#8216;getting low relative to the levels we like to keep on hand and certainly to the levels we&#8217;re going to need to deter a China conflict.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Karako also noted that the U.S. exit from Afghanistan left lots of air-dropped bombs available. They cannot be easily used with Ukrainian aircraft, but &#8216;in today&#8217;s context we should be looking for innovative ways to convert them to standoff capability.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to DailyMail.com, Justin Crump &#8211; a former British Army officer and now CEO of\u00a0Sibylline, a strategic risk consultancy company &#8211; said that the\u00a0GLSDB systems would bring more high-value Russian targets into the range of Kyiv&#8217;s military.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the\u00a0GLSDB concept would be a relatively simple and cost-effective modification that would increase the range of Ukrainian MLRS and HIMARS.<\/p>\n<p>The systems could also be produced at the same time as &#8216;normal&#8217; rockets, Mr Crump said, and thus help &#8216;overcome the bottlenecks in ammunition supply that are currently hindering support for Ukraine&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11476369\/100-mile-strike-weapon-weighed-Ukraine-arms-makers-wrestle-demand-sources.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. considers the transfer of more advanced munitions to Ukraine. For U.S, foreign policy hawks the benefits would be to prolong the war, increase arms industry profits and ultimately weaken Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":261784,"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-261782","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\/261782","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=261782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261785,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261782\/revisions\/261785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}