"...The deal is worth up to £1.6bn and will involve recruiting 200 additional staff.
Thales is a French-owned company which is one of Europe's biggest arms manufacturers.
The order is for lightweight multirole missiles (LMMs) which Ukrainian forces are already using.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced the order as he laid out a four point plan to "reach peace and defend Ukraine". ...It will be funded by a loan underwritten by United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF) "
Reference: www.bbc.com
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"...RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany—Ukraine is expected to make its case for the U.S. and its allies to remove restrictions barring it from using donated long-range weapons to strike targets in Russia ...a monthly meeting convened by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, which is also attended by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.
The Sept. 6 meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group will “ensure that Ukraine has what it needs to defend its people from Russian aggression,” Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder said in a statement to Air & Space Forces Magazine. “Key focus areas will include bolstering Ukraine’s air defense capabilities, updates on UDCG capability coalitions—to include the Air Force Coalition, and the energizing of the defense industrial bases of Coalition nations to enable support to Ukraine for the long haul.”
Kyiv has issued increasingly forceful and public calls to provide more help"
Reference: www.airandspaceforces.com
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"...The UK will send hundreds more short-range missiles to Ukraine, it was announced ahead of a summit where Volodymyr Zelensky asked for authorisation to strike targets deep inside Russia with Western-supplied weapons. ..."
Reference: www.bbc.com
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"... aid package for Ukraine totaling about $1.7 billion and largely consisting of missiles and ammunition for missile, artillery and air defense systems the US has previously provided to Ukraine. ... The USAI package includes missiles for Ukraine’s National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), a key air defense platform.
It also includes ammunition for Ukraine’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) "
Reference: CNN
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"...the Biden Administration's fifty-seventh tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021. ...The capabilities in this announcement include:
Additional munitions for Patriot air defense systems;
Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;
Equipment to integrate Western launchers, missiles, and radars with Ukraine's systems;
Additional High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems(HIMARS) and ammunition;
155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles;
M113 Armored Personnel Carriers;
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles;
Trailers to transport heavy equipment;
Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
Precision aerial munitions;
High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);
Small arms and additional rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades;
Demolitions munitions and equipment for obstacle clearing;
Coastal and riverine patrol boats;
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear protective equipment; and
Spare parts, training munitions, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment. "
Reference: www.defense.gov
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