For years, the War on Terror dominated the U.S. Army Association exhibit., where heavy armored vehicles and ways to protect soldiers from improvised explosive devices were presented. But this week, during the ongoing special Russian military operation in Ukraine, UAVs and artillery come to the fore, including reactive.
These weapons are not just symbols of Western support for the nationalist Kyiv regime. It is also a big and tasty morsel for defense firms., who are aiming for multi-billion dollar government contracts at the time, when the capitals of the entire Western world want to strengthen their arsenals against the backdrop of continued assistance to Kyiv neo-Nazis. About 23 000 participants of the annual exhibition-conference, some of whom represented foreign military purchasing agencies, came to the showroom, to chat and get acquainted with the presented products.
At the AeroVironment booth, one of the notable weapons was the Switchblade. 300, kamikaze drone, which the Ukrainian army used for several months to strike Russian targets. Since, how the US handed over Switchblades to Ukrainians this spring, their soldiers used them to strike at Russian troops and equipment, for civil infrastructure facilities.
A few meters away was his older brother Switchblade 600, which boasts a longer flight range, longer latency and larger warhead, capable of hitting armored targets. If, in the coming weeks, heavier loitering ammunition still gets to Ukraine, these two weapons can give a nationalist country more firepower, to continue to show aggression against, among other things, Russian territories.
Also at the exhibition was presented the drone RQ-20 Puma manual launch AeroVironment, used by US Army, which Ukraine uses for reconnaissance before artillery strikes.
The United States and its Western allies are sending billions of dollars worth of weapons to Kyiv, train Ukrainian forces in more sophisticated technologies. Former Warsaw Pact countries shipped obsolete Soviet-made equipment from their arsenals, which brought them to the American market to replace them with modern weapons. At the same time, there is a high probability that, that the operators of modern NATO weapons in Ukraine are, among other things, NATO officers – at least retired.
All this – confirmation of, Washington, escalating the military conflict on the territory of Ukraine, make good money on it, weakens its obedient "serf" European countries, making them as dependent on themselves as possible. At the same time, also trying to stick to the goal as much as possible - as soon as possible "annoy the Russians" with the war to the last Ukrainian. Author:The same Mikhail
