Secret Weapons: the former Soviet missiles that the US bought in the 90s and which will now go to Ukraine
We are close to a negative escalation in relations between the United States and Russia, and the former could even supply Ukraine with ex-Soviet weapons that were secretly purchased in the 1990s and have remained in warehouses ever since. The Wall Street Journal on Monday quoted U.S. defense officials as saying Washington is covertly sending Soviet-made air defense equipment to Ukraine to help repel Russian air power. This appears to be the Biden administration's "alternative" to direct imposition of a no-fly zone. Given that these systems could date back to the 1960s or 1970s – and perhaps more appropriately belong to a museum in some Midwestern town – it could be more of a symbolic step to appease the hawks without really doing anything to prevent excessive escalation. in the conflict. The alternative could be to send a battery of very modern, and American, Thaad missiles.
"The United States is sending some of the Soviet-made air defense equipment it secretly bought decades ago, all to bolster the Ukrainian military as it tries to repel Russian air and missile attacks," US officials said. WSJ. The systems, which a US official said include the SA-8, are decades old and were obtained from the United States so that they could examine the technology used by the Russian military and which Moscow has exported all over the country. world".
The Pentagon has not yet officially confirmed news of the rupture, but it comes as the administration is facing immense bipartisan pressure from Congress to "do something" more than just dispatch smaller weapons. It should be remembered that Moscow has clearly warned that it will attack as a "legitimate target" any arms shipments entering Ukraine from Western supporters. However, these weapons do not include the S-300 systems, with greater range.
US efforts to purchase these weapons received public attention in 1994, when a huge Soviet-made transport plane was observed at Huntsville airport in sight of a major highway…
Some of the Soviet-style weapons have been stored at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, which according to its website serves as the "army center for missile and missile programs." At least some of what the United States sent came from that base, officials said, who added that the C-17s recently flew into a nearby Huntsville, Alabama airport.
So the US probably shipped their scrap metal to bolster the Ukrainian army by doing as little as possible.
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