The Pentagon will include advanced artillery shells for the M982 Excalibur as part of the next shipment for Kyiv.
According to Bloomberg, the ammunition is 155 mm and has a range of 57 kilometers, according to a Defense Department accounting document.
Costs Involved in the New Arms Shipment
A total of $92 million was spent to replenish the munitions of a US artillery piece that had previously been sent to Ukraine. The arms delivered were either destroyed, sold on the black market, or abandoned by fleeing Ukrainian nationalist forces from Russian troops, reported Sputnik News.
Aside from the United States, Canada, a NATO member, sent the same armament to Ukraine; Ottawa announced in April that several shells would be included with the four artillery units that would be sent to Ukraine, noted CBC.
Raytheon and BAE Systems manufacture advanced artillery shells, which involve a GPS guidance system for greater accuracy of about 2-4 meters. Field artillery weapons used by NATO and its allies can be fired from mobile or towed howitzers.
Many of these systems have been deployed for use by Ukrainian forces, but they've recently been lost in Russian army routs. It was first used in Iraq and Afghanistan during the US and NATO's purported invasions of these nations.
Replacement of Busted equipment in Ukraine
The cost of the arms would have allowed the Pentagon to buy 900 Excaliburs in the latest accounting year.
Other munitions costs include $337 million to supplement additional artillery rounds sent over to Ukraine, $260.6 million for GMLRS rockets, $745.5 million for Stingers, $471 million for 16 HIMARS, and $263 million to remunerate the US Air Force for transferring US equipment from across the Atlantic to Europe.
As inflation rises, the cost of re-arming Kyiv from losses is steadily increasing, resulting in billions of dollars spent on military and economic assistance by the Biden administration; Ukraine received a significant amount from the White House in the last six months.
Last Thursday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declared that the White House had authorized an extra $675 million in military aid, including artillery guns, projectiles, military vehicles, armored ambulances, anti-tank systems, other armaments, and munitions.
Russia Says Arming Ukraine Will Not End Conflict
The Kremlin has savaged the White House and its allies for their reckless arming of Ukrainian forces. It increases the risk of more conflicts in Eastern Europe while fueling the arms trade of criminals and profiteers.
A Sputnik Arabic investigation into dark web weapons sales last month unearthed an arms dealer ready and able to transport American-made M4 automatic weapons from Ukraine to Yemen through the use of Poland and Portugal.
Independently, a documentary that CBS News originally aired but later pulled revealed that only "30 percent" of Western nations' hardware donations would make it to the front lines.
One of Russia's and its allies' charges against the Ukrainian government in the Donbas, which includes Kherson and Zaporozhye, is that Ukraine uses weapons from the West to attack civilians and their settlements.
Last Wednesday, Vladimir Putin called the intentional shelling by Zelensky's forces as dangerous as it targets the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.
The US Pentagon slid advanced artillery shells in Kyiv's next arms aid package. So far, the Ukrainian army has not used the weapons well, and Europe is reaching its limit in the arms it supplies.
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