The equipment, worth up to $138 million, is intended to maintain and upgrade the HAWK air defense system to protect against attacks by Russian drones and cruise missiles.
The United States will sell equipment to Ukraine to modernize the HAWK air defense systems. Reuters reported this with reference to a representative of the US State Department.
The Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program will use $138 million of the $300 million in Foreign Military Funding (FMF) passed by Congress as part of the annual defense spending proposal recently signed by President Joe Biden.
The Presidential Arms Reduction Authority (PDA) was previously used to transfer HAWK equipment to Ukraine. It allows the United States to quickly move stockpiled defense goods and services without congressional approval in response to emergencies.
On Tuesday it was also reported that the United States transferred more than 5 thousand small arms to Ukraine.
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