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Transport. it would give them guns on the side, the same kind of rocket pods. what i think the pilots are talking about are more the attack helicopters like apaches or even cobras. those are extremely expensive, very technologically advanced. takes a whole lot of training and a whole lot of maintenance. but they fire precision weapons from the aircraft, and they can be tank killers from literally almost up to 12 kilometers away. >> the training on that, how long does that take? >> there's been talk a lot about the f-16s. you would probably have to put as much time in an apache helicopter as yo...

But there is a time factor of a year and 18 months is what you are looking at. >> bush says that this the greatest ramp up of military production possibly going back to the korean war. >> early on, we realized that we had to put the foot to the floor. >> reporter: the goal is to produce two times of artillery rounds to 70,000, and twice as many javelin anti-tank missiles, and 30% more rocket launchers about 850 per month, and the precision weapons that ukraine is using to target ammo depots and 60 stingers aircraft ammo each month. the u.s. is not at war to russia, but it matters little to the...

Claim the type of missile used in this strike, jim, was the same kind of missile that was used to strike a mall in cremenchuk last summer. seems the target was a facility at few hundred meters away that repairs military vehicles. obviously they did not hit their target, but this missile is not a precision one. it has accuracy only within a 500 meter radius or so. the russians have thousands of these missiles, though. so if they're running through their more precision weapons, they can easily resort to something like this, but in this case it is very unclear if there was a military target, or i...

If you will. these kits that they're going to send are fitted on to the bombs and they turn them into precision weapons. they are aimed at a target, the weapon flies to that target and hits it. that will give the ukrainians an advantage on the battlefield if they're able to strike with more precision at russian targets inside of ukraine. these weapons will have about a 15 mile range. so that also will help keep ukrainian fighter jets out of the direct line of fire of russian anti-air weapons. that is been the big issue right now. the ukrainians fly but not a lot because of the possibility of b...

It may not be too complicated but will take a while to get it done so they're watching with anticipation to see how soon the ukrainian air force can get these precision weapons in shape onto their aircraft and begin to fly more against those russian targets, especially with everybody digging in for a very cold ukraine winter. pamela. >> all right, barbara, we got to know before we let you go, today is your last day at cnn and you have been showered rightfully so with all the love from your colleagues because you have just been such an incredible part of the cnn family. you'll be sorry missed. ...