Hydra 70 rockets next to an AGM-114 Hellfire. Wiki Commons
Originally published on ZeroHedge
The White House unveiled a new $300 million arms package for Ukraine this week, which uses the Presidential Drawdown Authority, meaning yet more Pentagon stockpiles will be depleted.
The funds continue to be drawn from the $45 billion aid package Congress authorized in December, but a key new item in this particular package is the Hydra-70 rocket. It marks the first time that the unguided missile which is usually fired from aircraft as an air-to-ground missile has been authorized.
Additionally, more howitzers, artillery rounds, and projectiles for HIMARS rockets systems will be included in the new package which was announced Wednesday.
According to a description of the Hydra-70 weapon system produced by General Dynamics:
Hydra-70 rocket systems are a range of 2.75-inch, or 70 mm, unguided air-to-surface rockets, described by defense manufacturer General Dynamics as “a lethal and lightweight weapon system with multi-mission capability.”
The system can use nine different warheads, providing what General Dynamics called a “tailor-made solution” to the operator’s needs. They are an “affordable” way of zeroing in on “lower-value targets on the battlefield,” the defense contractor said.
They are fired from aircraft, and are compatible with the likes of the Apache helicopter and the F-16 fighter jet, General Dynamics said. It is the world’s most commonly used helicopter-launched weapon system, according to the military website Army Technology.
In Ukraine’s case, Hydra-70 rockets will likely be launched from helicopters, but the F-16 continues to be debated among Western allies as a possible future aircraft for Ukraine’s air force, but is not yet approved, also given the training process would be lengthy.
Image: US Army
The Pentagon has listed the weapons which make up the newly approved $300 million package as follows:
- Additional ammunition for HIMARS
- 155mm Howitzers
- 155mm artillery rounds
- 120mm, 81mm, and 60mm mortar rounds
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles
- AT-4 and Carl Gustaf anti-armor weapon systems
- Hydra-70 aircraft rockets
- Small arms and small arms ammunition
- Demolition munitions for obstacle clearing
- Trucks and trailers to transport heavy equipment
- Testing and diagnostic equipment to support vehicle maintenance and repair
- Spare parts and other field equipment
In the meantime, further escalation is in the air given Ukraine has grown more brazen in launching drone attacks inside Russian territory, including this week’s drone attack on the Kremlin, which the Russian government denounced as a “terrorist assassination attempt” against President Putin.
The number of howitzer, artillery and stocks of shells and ammunition of ukraine are at their lowest, it would be the perfect moment to attack massively in the west and cut off ukraine from the rest of the world, this package and the next ones will never happen that way and the eastern front lines will quickly crumble, but it won’t happen …
You should not forget the airports!
I would have destroyed those months ago along with all the main railways.
nope. 1. difficult logistics to maintain over there. 2. would take time to set up SAM air cover. 3. Still leaving the gates in open to suck in, learn about and destroy NATO weapons.
@Erina
From that alone everybody should realize that his whole war is rigged. It’s jewish theater to get christians to slaughter each other. Why the heck would anyone really supporting a country in war openly announce and thereby also inform the enemy about the amount as well as the kind of weapons you deliver to his adversary ?
Only logical explaination is that it is done to full intentionally help him prepare for it, so that he can cope with it and destroy the shit upon arrival quick. What then results in more weapons being needed immediately. So who is profiting from this ? It is jews and their jewish owned so-called “US” and “Russian” military companies in USA and Russia. They get rich, and the christians get killed.
Therefore Mankind has the right and the holy duty to execute all these pest of the earth, called jews.
Putin himself (mother maiden name Shalomova) is of jewish origin too – so he too should be killed, same as Prigozhin, Berel Lazar, Abramovich, Arcady Rotenberg, W. Zelensky, Madelaine Albright, V. Nuland (real name Nudelmann), A. Merkel, A. Kahane, G. Soros (real name György Schwartz), Yascha Mounk, Henry Kissinger, (real name Avraham ben Elazar), C. Lagarde (Chief of EZB), Bill Gates, and Yuval Noah Harari, A. Bourla (Ceo Pfizer), S. Bancel (Ceo Moderna), Pascal Soriot (ex-Ceo AstraZeneca) and A. Ginzburg (Ceo Gamalaia Institute which produces Sputnik V ), the complete Rothchild dynasty, the Warburg dynasty, the Schiff dynasty. They are all jews, working together hand-in-hand to conquer earth and eradicate christianity and none-jewish mankind. These creatures and all of those collaborating with them (for example prime swine Rockefeller dynasty, and engl. and dutch crown dynasty incl. the half-jewish inbred Prince Charles) need to be executed on the spot.
Its that simple. They, the jews are the real virus, and these parasites even admit it themselves, see:
Rabbi Laitman lectures his students that: They (jews) are aliens on mission to conquer earth (see, with subtitles, here:) https://www.bitchute.com/video/jLulBXf0tNBn/
Full version (without subtitles, here:) https://www.bitchute.com/video/xEH9KPOpLvI7/
https://southfront.org/air-launched-hydra-70-rockets-approved-for-1st-time-in-300m-ukraine-package/
There is some truth in what you are saying Svetlana. I only sincerely hope you are not so called Ukrainian Azov/Aydar/SBU supporter as these are organized and armed by these very same Jews you would like to be shot. They are tools of the Jools.
“(mother maiden name Shalomova)” nothing to do with Jews, debunked ukro-crap
And the USSA plans on going to war against China. At least they’ll still have plenty of rainbow colored flags to wave against the Chinese.
https://babylonbee.com/video/chinese-military-to-just-shout-wrong-pronouns-at-american-soldiers
THEY HAVE TO AIRCRAFT TO FIRE THESE…MAYBE VSU niks will be dropped from heights with these strapped to their balls
Put it on the tab, we will win and pay it back. Honestly
where do they put them to shoot? they don’t have airforce and few helis left. they could put them up to their ass to shoot.
drones maybe?
nah, what kind of drones you need to fire such relatively large missiles? Bayraktar perhaps, but what’s the point.
these things can only used by helicopters, and that’s almost useless for AFU
They verry look like my dildo collection.