zaporizhzhia, for example, and make a corridor. they re bombing you, as well. now the bombing is precision bombing because you can target more accurately. the american doctrine is that you would only do such infantry moves with air power which the ukrainians don t have and the air power comes in, cleans the path and the american gets the other side running back and then they start to win. we, meaning the ukrainian, the u.s. and the west need a solution to get them moving. so that gets us to drones. they are already using an extraordinary amount of drones, with the ukrainians and how many drones are they using a week or a month? they re on track to using a couple hundred thousand drones in a year. most drones only survive one or two flights before they fail or they re blocked. i was shocked at how good the russians were at electronic warfare and jamming. basically, everything you send into the battlefield which is quite narrow, the rest of the
manpads that ukraine has already used for aerial defense. that s on top of what other countries have provided. patriots have their challenges though. they are large, complex systems. so the training, maintenance, sustainment, all of that will take time to learn. and that s part of the process here. the other crucial system that we re learning about, the precision bombing kids known as joint direct attack munitions. that allows ukraine to turn quote unquote dumb bombs into precision guided bombs. we have seen their use with great effect, precision guided munitions. for example, the himars system, the ex albert guided artillery systems, all of the have been critical for ukraine success on the battlefield so far. this will largely fill a similar role, these jdams. they can be used on a variety of different bombs, 500 palm bombs, 2000 pound bombs, the relatively annexed spence of according to boeing, only $22,000 per kit. fraction of the price of the game lars munitions used with
himars and other high-end munitions i ve been provided to ukraine. yet, they fill that role of precision bombing that can be due at range. so you don t have to get in very close. the standard jdams have range about 15 miles, and some of the extended range have a range of 40 miles or more. it s unclear exactly what the u.s. will provide at this point. of course, these have to be air lawn. they are launch from fighter jets. so, ukraine will have to figure out a way to mount these on soviet-era fighter jets they have, so that they can use them, and then find a way to be able to control them from a soviet era cockpit. but crucially, ukraine has so that ability already. they ve done it with the u.s. provide anti greater missiles. and i have to do it again here to make this work. or liebermann, cnn, the pentagon. and cnn s clare sebastian joins us live from london with more. clare, this would be, and is shaping up to, be zelenskyy s first overseas trip since the russian invasion began. wha
also being planned here. keep in mind, he would be on capitol hill at the same moment lawmakers are considering a spending bill that includes an additional $40 billion plus in assistance to ukraine, something that underscores a bipartisan manner and a very significant manner the weight of the u.s. support behind ukraine s effort over the course of the last nine months. such a fascinating development. phil, thank you for that. i want to bring in oren lieberman. this planned visit underscores just the significance of those patriot missiles and other assistance the u.s. is set to give to ukraine. it does. and two main parts we re learning to this ukraine assistance package, one is the patriot missiles. the other is a precision bombing kit that would turn dumb bombs into precision bombs and allow ukraine to carry out the actions we have seen against russian forces, especially the counteroffensives we ve been
precision bombing drills last month, in response to the north firing an intermediate range ballistic missile overjapan. here s our correspondent in seoul, jean mackenzie, on the timing today. north korea says it is launching these missiles because it is annoyed with south korea and the us for holding large scale military exercises, which it sees as a direct threat. it views these as its enemies preparing to invade, even though the us and south korea say that these are defensive exercises which they are only really holding in face of what they see as an increased threat posed by north korea. but essentially, you have a situation on the peninsula now where both sides are responding to each other and you have this military escalation that s building up. the thing that we need to be paying attention to is where things go from here. north korea just yesterday issued a pretty sober warning to south korea and the united states. they said that if these exercises continued, they would pay the m