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Germany sends new military aid package to Ukraine, including IRIS-T, aerial and surface drones (euromaidanpress.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by LaFinlandia@sopuli.xyz to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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1 IRIS-T SLS air defense system.
26 “Vector” reconnaissance drones.
1 Bergepanzer 2 armored recovery vehicle.
6 High Mobility Engineer Excavators.
14,000 rounds of 155mm ammunition.
10 unmanned surface vessels.
55,000 first aid kits.
700 MK 556 assault rifles.
10 HLR 338 precision rifles.
50 CR 308 rifles.

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/military-support-ukraine-2054992

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[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

High mobility engineer excavator. Pretty cool device. And then you see the numbers operated per army.. the US has "a few".

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn thats a lot lol

Interestingly though, it says germany only has 7, but this article says they are sending 6 so I'm assuming the Wikipedia is outdated.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Or they bought a few to send. Or they bought others and are sending theirs.

[–] smokeysnilas 3 points 2 months ago

Is some of this already financed from the interest of frozen russian assets in EU? There was some news about this recently but I don't understand all the abbrevations in the press release.