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Old 12-09-2022, 12:25 PM
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Angry Department Moves Quick to Replenish Weapons Sent to Ukraine

Department Moves Quick to Replenish Weapons Sent to Ukraine
By: C. Todd Lopez - US Dept. D.O.D. News 09-09-22
Re: https://www.defense.gov/News/News-St...nt-to-ukraine/

If you didn't know (read below).

Following Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the United States embarked on a long-term commitment to provide Ukraine with the tools and equipment it needs to defend its sovereignty. Since that time, more than $14.5 billion in assistance has been committed to Ukraine.

Some of the assistance provided has been new and purchased on contract from defense industry manufacturers as a part of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. But much of the equipment, some $12.5 billion worth, has been provided as part of presidential drawdown authority. That means things such as Javelin and Stinger missiles, HIMARS rocket launcher systems, and Switchblade unmanned aerial systems, for instance, have been pulled directly from existing U.S. military inventory to be sent overseas.

Because so much gear has been pulled from U.S. military units, that equipment must now be replaced in order to sustain America's own readiness, and the Defense Department has already contracted with an array of manufacturers to give back to military units what was taken from them in order to support Ukraine.

"As we work with industry to accelerate production on both replenishment systems and direct procurements under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative or USAI, we're using a number of tools to get the funding moving, and the contracting happening quickly," Bill LaPlante, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, said during a briefing today at the Pentagon.

Already, about $1.2 billion in contracts are underway to replenish U.S. military stocks for weapons sent to Ukraine, LaPlante said. That includes about $352 million in funding for replacement Javelin missiles, $624 million for replacement Stinger missiles, and $33 million for replacement HIMARS systems.

Another $1.2 billion in contracts are underway now for equipment promised to Ukraine under USAI, including for things like 155mm ammunition, Switchblade unmanned aerial systems, radar systems and tactical vehicles.

The Department is expediting these efforts by using undefinitized contracting actions, or UCAs, to get industry working on contracts before they are definitized, LaPlante said.

"You can put a UCA together within a week, and we're doing that," he said. "We're also making use of indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts, or IDIQ. If you have IDIQs, and we have many of them, what you can do is just add task orders to them very quickly to get equipment on contract."

In late April, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III participated in the first meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group where leaders from about 40 nations met to discuss both current and future efforts to provide support for Ukraine and to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty going forward. Today, the contact group includes about 50 nations, and the group concluded its fifth meeting just yesterday in Germany.

Now, as a kind of offshoot of the contact group, LaPlante said he will meet Sept. 28 with the national armaments directors from other contact group nations to discuss how the global defense industrial base can continue to support Ukraine both now and into the future.

"Right now we have three kind of themes — but this will evolve as we build the agenda," LaPlante said. "The first is comparing notes and giving situation reports on ramping up production of key capabilities. We have a lot to learn from each other."

Also on the agenda is developing a global picture of the defense supply chain, he said.

"[This includes] what are we seeing in the supply chain ... the typical things in the supply chain are microelectronics and the obsolescence of them, things like ball bearings even, and solid rocket motors [and] other sensors," he said. "We want to compare notes on what people are seeing in their supply chain and what answers people have had."

Finally, he said, a topic of discussion will be to build both interoperability between systems and also to increase interchangeability as well. "That is the ability for us to take a munition from one country and use it in a weapons system of another, and vice versa.

Just yesterday, the Defense Department announced a new presidential drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $675 million. The package includes, among other things, more munitions for HIMARS, four 105mm Howitzers with 36,000 accompanying rounds, additional high-speed anti-radiation missiles, and 1.5 million rounds of small arms ammunition, said Sasha Baker, the deputy under secretary of defense for policy.

"This represents the 20th drawdown package we've provided to Ukraine," said Baker. "It includes equipment ... the Ukrainians have already demonstrated, in many cases, that they can use to great effect."

The latest security assistance package brings the total amount of U.S. assistance to Ukraine since the February invasion to more than $14.5 million, Baker said.

"We think this underscores our unwavering support for Ukraine as it continues to defend its sovereignty in the face of Russian aggression," Baker said. "We believe, at the end of the day, that Russia's efforts have not succeeded and will not succeed. And when it comes to helping Ukraine to defend itself, and when it comes to making sure that there is significant pressure on Russia to end this conflict, [that requires] making sure that our own alliance is as strong and as resolute as it can be to deter Russian aggression."

That unity of effort and resolve, Baker said, was evident in the most recent meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, and has been evident all along as demonstrated by the Ukrainian people.
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Personal note: Well now you know where all the cash went. Just imagine had we taken
that same amount and spent it on our National Electric Grid - so badly needed!
Where's the money for that forgotten necessity!? We can throw money around to
other countries - but we don't fix our own! Shame on us and the Politician's who
supported and signed off on those decisions. We've got to take care of our own first!!!
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We can't be a Big Brother to the World - if our system goes to shit and we have
medical issues and crimes rise from a Broken Arrow & Power Grid System!
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America First and foremost should be No. 1. Congress and the White House are both
guilty of those transactions - taking public monies that shouldv'e gone into updating
our internal power grid system. We can't save the whole world and let our People get
the short stick - of their tax monies. If America isn't 1st - we can't help others.
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Your People should be No. 1 at all times. Regardless of the international issues
and the expenditures of our military materials and manpower. They are getting
out of hand! Our National Debt goes beyond normality - and has little to show for
it - to the American People. If we don't come first - then you've sold us out to
save those in other land's - that many have never been to. This Big Brother
attitude was adapted by whom? When did agree to saviour of the world?
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We've kicked that can down road long enough. Pick up can and toss in the garbage.
We/ve seen 2nd and 3rd generation countries step up - and progress - and mostly
by reverse engineering our products & supported by cheap labor. You've given up
the farm - as they say - to buy for less dollars rather then be made in the USA.
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They've exceeding your expectations in many ways - of which we get no return -
rather they've take away our product lines & Labels (Made in the USA) and our
employment. Thereby exceeding in causing rapid unemployment at home.
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Are they smarter than us - (maybe) but their system thrives and ours dies!
What is it that makes them better than us? You tax the hell out of us to buy
and make weapons - of which shows our insecurity - by not making our own.
They are far better in electronics then our people it seems. They are more
innovated and their imagination seems to exceed ours at home.
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I'm not putting down our engineer's or scientist - but it seems we can make
rockets and electric cars - but with whose parts? Chips and highend electronics
are from whom? We can make aircraft but are all the parts made in the USA?
You've given them leverage - that they can use against us by not making or
selling those spare parts or electronics to us. Are we ready to make copies of
those parts and how quickly.
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Short comings: We used to have our own oil wells - but fracking stopped
because of possible earth quakes. We are too damn dependent on 3rd
world countries for many items.

I'm old enough to know what we've been through and what we've lost
to other countries. They took imaginations and copied and improved them
then sell them back to us for less - but not necessarily as good as we'd like.
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My Dad and Uncles lost their jobs in the steel mills as did many other who
lost theirs as well - and it was painful. Our imagination and their skills went
down the tubes for others to take credit for in other lands today.
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We've waited for decades for improvments in our "power grid" but that is
of no interest of late to you guys in Washington - and winter will soon be
upon us. What improvements have you made - or others that are American
made 100% today.

I'd say damn little - you are now dependent on foreign products for most
everything electronic today.
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Why is it - American's fight in other lands and die or are severly injured?
Why is it - We currently suffered from - an insurection on our lands?
Why is it - Jobs are so scarse and it cost far more for products!
Why is it - In America we see no end to its wants and needs?
But never addressed!
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a. What are you guys doing in the White House & Congress to improve our issues?
b. Going to the moon - What does that cost! Is it - that important?
c. Political's have supreme pensions & upgrades - we don't! Why is that?
d. The Dollar is worth far less now then it was 10-15 years ago.
e. It's almost obsolete and most can't even survive on what dollar used to buy!
f. Talk about taking away Social Security - say's alot about - who you care about!
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Closing:
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We The People - remember us? Are tired of being used.
Many of us thought we'd get retirement funds - but the owner's went
under and filed bankrupcy leaving us high and dry.
S.S. - I hear that it may be removed in the near future - what will we do
go to a farm and graze on the lands like cattle?
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You high and mighty's will have your day - but nothing like ours!
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Boats

O Almighty Lord God, who neither slumberest nor sleepest; Protect and assist, we beseech thee, all those who at home or abroad, by land, by sea, or in the air, are serving this country, that they, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore in all perils; and being filled with wisdom and girded with strength, may do their duty to thy honour and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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