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jakeXT

(10,575 posts) Wed Feb 25, 2015, 05:03 AM Feb 2015

US inching toward sending arms to Ukraine

The failure of a European-brokered ceasefire to put an end to the fighting in eastern Ukraine is likely to increase pressure on President Barack Obama to send weapons to Ukraine’s government despite objections by Germany and other key European allies.

Any decision to send more sophisticated weaponry to Ukraine will require greater collaboration between the U.S. and Ukraine to ensure troops can manage those systems in the field.

What would such a move mean for U.S. troops?

“I think they have several options. They could send troops to Ukraine to have U.S. forces involved, or they could bring Ukraine’s (troops) back to the U.S. to train on those systems,” said Sim Tack, a military analyst with the Texas-based intelligence and advisory firm STRATFOR.

http://www.stripes.com/news/us-inching-toward-sending-arms-to-ukraine-1.331182

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US inching toward sending arms to Ukraine (Original Post) jakeXT Feb 2015 OP

I think we should send defensive only weapons Duckhunter935 Feb 2015 #1

The US gave them counter mortar radar system which can be hooked into to mortar or artillery jakeXT Feb 2015 #2

They should also give them anti-tank weapons Duckhunter935 Feb 2015 #4

Sounds like Wesley Clark jakeXT Feb 2015 #5

good company to be with Duckhunter935 Feb 2015 #6

No weapons to any country east of the Bug. eom rogerashton Feb 2015 #3

Godspeed. uhnope Feb 2015 #7

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)

1. I think we should send defensive only weapons

Reply to jakeXT (Original post)

Wed Feb 25, 2015, 06:53 AM

Feb 2015

Russia has been pretty good at sending in the offensive ones.

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

2. The US gave them counter mortar radar system which can be hooked into to mortar or artillery

Reply to Duckhunter935 (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 25, 2015, 07:01 AM

Feb 2015

Washington (AFP) - The US military has delivered three radars to Ukraine designed to detect incoming mortar fire, the Pentagon said Friday, amid appeals from Kiev for Washington to send weapons to help fight pro-Russian rebels.

The counter-mortar radar systems were flown to Ukraine in a C-17 cargo plane that accompanied US Vice President Joe Biden, who paid a visit to Kiev on the first anniversary of protests that unleashed a year of upheaval.

A total of 20 counter-mortar radar systems were due to be delivered over the next several weeks, and Ukrainian troops would undergo training on the radars starting in mid-December, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren said.

The radars detect incoming mortar rounds and then calculate the origin of the mortar fire. The systems can be hooked up to mortar or artillery batteries which then return fire.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-delivers-anti-mortar-radars-ukraine-pentagon-222447307.html

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)

4. They should also give them anti-tank weapons

Reply to jakeXT (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 25, 2015, 07:49 AM

Feb 2015

Russia has supplied many tanks and APC's to the east of Ukraine via the unmonitored border. They have also had a military exercise along the Ukrainian border for a year, Do you think they should stop that exercise?

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

5. Sounds like Wesley Clark

Reply to Duckhunter935 (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 25, 2015, 08:22 AM

Feb 2015

Washington. Speaking at a conference dedicated to the situation in the Ukrainian city of Debaltseve former NATO commander Wesley Clark said Ukraine’s army could have successfully protected the strategic settlement if it had been provided with modern American or other western arms and weapons, TASS reported.
In his words, the lack of modern anti-tank systems is the major reason for the defeat of the Ukrainian government forces.

http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2015/02/21/363908/former-nato-head-wesley-clark-it-was-impossible-to-defend-debaltseve-without-western-weapons.html