Comments by "Graeme Peters" (@graemepeters5717) on "Putin's drones wreak havoc, Avenger headed to Ukraine | Shoot-on-the-move air defense weapon" video.

  1. Hawk air-defence systems, the ones the Americans stopped using 20 years ago. The Yanks are dusting off 4 converted pick-ups: Avenger = Stinger from the back of a pick-up. Range 5km! - to add to Ukraine's credit card bill. However, they need to refurbish the Hawk missiles (because they don't work anymore). As yet the US hasn't even arranged a contract for a company to do the repairs! So, likely to arrive sometime next year.. All these systems - Hawk, Avenger, NASAM, etc are way below the capabilities of the S300s Ukraine has lost, and which weren't enough anyway. Enough 155mm rounds to last 3.5 days and 1.75 days of 120mm rounds! Humvees, designed for desert warfare! Note no quantity given for HIMARS missiles! The US admits it can't keep up with the UA loss rate. However, Russia had 6 years to stockpile ammunition, and supply is from NEXT DOOR! Russia is starting to deploy an extra 318,000 mobilized troops, 80,000 new volunteers, has another 10,000 waiting in Belarus, has 900 aircraft parked just inside Russia. Where are Ukraine's reinforcements? The demilitarization continues with another big score yesterday!
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  2.  @jmy7622  How naive! The American 'Loan/lease' means they have to pay it back - just like a credit card. So the US Govt places orders with US arms companies, pays for it with US taxpayers money, but the Ukraine people have to pay the money back! The arms get handed over to anyone who turns up in Poland to collect it, but most of it (70-90%) gets sold on the 'dark web', through organisations in Kiev and the money disappears into pockets. A lot of those pockets are owned by Govt officials - and some of it finds its way back to the pockets of the American officials who authorised the shipments. Also 9 of the early shipments were destroyed by Russia before they even got to the battlefield!
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