The U.S. is expected to announce on Wednesday that it will provide Ukraine with Patriot missile defense systems and precision bomb kits that will turn dumb bombs into smart bombs guided by GPS coordinates toward their targets, according to U.S. officials.
5:17Abaca via ZUMA Press, FILEwith Patriot missile defense systems and precision bomb kits that will turn dumb bombs into smart bombs guided by GPS coordinates toward their targets, according to U.S. officials.
In this May 6, 2022, file photo, a Patriot missile defence system is seen at Sliac Airport, in Sliac, near Zvolen, Slovakia.But U.S. officials have not been open to that possibility until recently out of concern over how Russia might react to their presence in Ukraine as well as over what might be learned about the missile's technology if a missile or its components were to fall into Russian hands.
Ukraine's air force has been carrying out limited flight operations throughout the 10-month war and presumably the bomb kits will give it a new offensive capability.Abaca via ZUMA Press, FILEIt is unclear when both systems will arrive in Ukraine. The U.S. and its partners have resupplied Ukraine's Soviet-era S-300 air defense missiles and provided Western air defense systems such as shoulder-fired Stinger missiles and other larger air defense systems like the NASAM, jointly produced by the U.S. and Norway.
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