Ukraine will receive its first batch of Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bombs, a brand new long-range weapon made by Boeing.
The new bomb, which can travel about 90 miles, is expected to be “a significant capability for Ukraine,” said one of the U.S. officials.
“It gives them a deeper strike capability they haven’t had, it complements their long-range fire arsenal,” the U.S. official said. “It’s just an extra arrow in the quiver that’s gonna allow them to do more.”
The extended range will put a new capability in Kyiv’s arsenal at a time when fighting along the front is in a stalemate, and as Ukraine looks for new ways to hit Russian forces and infrastructure behind the front lines.
New funding for Ukraine is part of the $111 billion emergency supplemental that’s been stalled on Capitol Hill. Despite the fact that the U.S. has no new money to authorize weapons transfers from existing stocks, the U.S. signed a contract with Boeing last year to provide the weapon to Kyiv.
Ukraine will be the first country to use the bomb in combat, making it a critical test case for other countries that have been snapping up long-range munitions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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High time for Kiev to negotiate a peace accord with Russia, or more accurately to surrender. End this gratuitous carnage. It's over.
@Debat3TunaLibertarian2yrs2Y
Surrender wouldn't have been necessary if we hadn't provoked the invasion and their ultimate defeat.
Now, instead of being in a position to negotiate, if Little Vlad Zelensky is still alive, he'll have terms dictated to HIM instead. But I don't think he'll be in office much longer.
OK, Neville.
@Debat3TunaLibertarian2yrs2Y
Quite an original analogy. Your erudition is most impressive.
A more apt analogy would be to call Biden LBJ: Both grinding up thousands of young men for no reason in far flung places for no discernible American interest, while simultaneously piling up our country's domestic debt.
@ChicMantisConstitution2yrs2Y
Ukraine has a $30 BILLION budget problem.
USA has a $30 TRILLION dollar budget problem.
Let's fix our own problems before we try fixing the problems of other countries...especially when they are THOUSAND times more corrupt than we are...though we're gaining on them quickly.
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