US is sending $375 million in military aid to Ukraine and will announce billions more
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The Biden administration has announced the U.S. will send Ukraine an undisclosed number of medium-range cluster bombs and an array of rockets, artillery and armored vehicles in a military aid package totaling about $375 million.

The U.S. will send Ukraine an undisclosed number of medium-range cluster bombs and an array of rockets, artillery and armored vehicles in a military aid package totaling about $375 million, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Officials expect an announcement on Wednesday, as global leaders meet at the U.N. General Assembly, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy uses his appearance there to shore up support and persuade the U.S. to allow his troops to use long-range weapon s to strike deeper into Russia. The following day, Zelenskyy meets with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    the US is one of few nations that didn’t sign that treaty, along with landmines.

    We pretend it’s ok by saying that we have high accuracy high precision cluster bombs. Though the ones getting to ukraine aren’t, that entire place is also littered with minefields, so it makes no difference lmao.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      We pretend it’s ok by saying that we have high accuracy high precision cluster bombs.

      Why would you want precise cluster bombs? The whole point of a cluster munition is to spread the effect over a broad area.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        enemy troop trenches.

        You can blast it shortly above the trench, accurate enough that a small amount of cluster munitions can explode killing the most people most effectively.

        in some cases, this isn’t advantageous, in the one atacms that ukraine sent over an airfield for example, having more clusters is obviously most important there.

        Also i take it you know nothing about them so i’ll expound upon my previous comment as i left out a few details. Modern US cluster munitions have individually targetting clusters. This means they can only detonate the actually important munitions, while leaving the rest as dead munitions, or even detonating in air to self destruct (still dangerous, but not as much) so you can kill a group of vehicles, without carpet bombing the rest of the area.

        TL;DR more precise cluster bombs allow for using less cluster munitions, which means less collateral, and more damage for the given explosives. I.E. more effective weapon.