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Shipment entails, officials expected it would include some of the more pressing needs, things like howitzers. now, this is part of an $800 million package president biden announced earlier in the week and will also include helicopters and more switchblade drones. now, there had been some biden administration officials who previously were hesitant to send this type of equipment into ukraine, worried that it could pose a risk of escalation in the view of russia. but the ukrainians have asked for t...

Ukrainians have at their disposal. the u.s. is sending a lot more weapons. some are heavy weaponry they have been asking for, including helicopters, switchblade drones, howitzers. what is the most impressive here? >> i like the switch-blade drones. weve been talking about heavy maneuver warfare. you need the q36 radars, the anti-radars. weve got 300 kamikaze drones. i think we need 3,000 drones. i think -- the reason the ukrainians are winning is their willing to fight, and technology. show thei...

By the ukrainians against the russians. it is going to be a different battle scene. you know, these types of weapons that are being talked about such as the helicopters and the switchblade drones and the h howitzers, and can they keep russians away from the critical east and other central parts of the country. >> and it is interesting that the russians are complaining about the weapon, because are they working and it is going to be effective? >> oh, yes, they are scared of them, because they are...

Security assistance the biden administration is extending to ukraine. this is much more sophisticated, heavy duty weaponry the u.s. is spending for ukraine. an official earlier in the week has said that originally these shipments would be headed into the region and the ukrainians would be transferring them into ukraine. who ill the pentagon has not released a manifest of what was released in this first shipment. the overall $800 million package includes helicopters, howitzer cannons as well as m...

We know they gave the howitzer cannons essential for long range targets. mi-17 helicopters something that president zelenskyy pressured president biden to give. that will be good for transporting things across the battlefield. as well as the switchblade drones for long range targets. definitely essential equipment that president zelenskyy was advocating for for quite some time for the u.s. to send. john kirby explained more of the thinking behind the new shipment here when he was talking to cnns...

Mix it. jon: let me put up on the screen the newest 800 million-dollar aid package. part of me the u.s. is providing ukraine. 155-millimeter letter and 30,000 rounds that is a launcher that can do some significant damage. eleven helicopters, switchblade drones which have proven very valuable on the battlefield. armored carriers, humvees and 500 javelin antitank missiles which have also been extremely lethal in the hands of the ukrainian. in her million dollars worth. is there more you feel we sh...

This is the array of weapons the ukrainians are going to need to try to push back the russia offensive. the ability to use counterartillery radar, for example, to low indicate where the fire is coming is important. the switchblade drones, very advanced, can be carried by individual soldiers. training in those is key and that apparently was done in the u.s. over the last few weeks. these are significant moves. whether theyre enough, well watch and see over the next weeks. >> all right. more from ...

Telling "the post" the training will take a few days at most. it all revealed information about ukrainian soldiers who were in the united states for training when the russian invasion began. they were taught how to use switchblade drones as well as new coastal defense drones included in this weeks $800 million aid package. those soldiers returned to ukraine last weekend where they will train others on using the same weapons. meanwhile, a new air defense system, the largest item a nato country ha...

Quick reaction force that the ukrainians are going to have to basically generate in the east to try and stop any avenue of approach that russia uses. so it will be interesting to see them using these new pieces of equipment, the artillery, the counter fire radars, the fast moving vehicles. many more pieces of javelin and stinger missiles as well as some of the new switchblade drones that theyll be getting. all of these things will contribute. its giving ukraine a capability that is reinforcing w...

So, if you match artillery with the counter-battery radar systems that we have, then when the russian army fires artillery, you are able to capture the location of the delivery system that theyve got, their artillery pieces. and you can do counter-battery, radar-developed fires. so, basically its they fire, you find them, you kill them. and that is a critical component to dealing with the russian army systems that we have right now. >> so, u.s. officials say theyre sending over the remainder of ...