U.S. Sends Additional Bradley and M113 Vehicles in $250 Million Aid Package for Ukraine

The United States has included Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and M113 armored personnel carriers in a new military aid package for Ukraine.

According to the release published on the Pentagon’s website, the aid package is provided under a Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) with an estimated value of $250 million.

“The package will provide Ukraine with additional capabilities to meet its most urgent needs,” the Defense Department stated.

It also comprises armored vehicles, artillery ammunition, patrol boats, anti-tank weapons, missiles for air defense systems, and HIMARS missiles.

Along with the Bradley vehicles, which have proven effective in combat, and M113 personnel carriers for transporting infantry, the aid features unnamed MRAPs.

RIM-7 and Stinger missiles are being transferred to strengthen air defense capabilities.

RIM-7 anti-aircraft missiles are used in shipboard air defense systems, but in Ukraine they are used in modified ground-based systems.

Previously, Militarnyi reported that the Buk-M1 air defense systems used by the Ukrainian air defense were converted to use American missiles.

The Pentagon noted that this is the 65th aid package for Ukraine provided by the Biden administration from the Defense Department’s stockpiles since August 2021.

Before the meeting at the Ramstein base in Germany, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced a new military aid package and noted that the weapons would be delivered “at war speed.”

The previous $125 million package was provided by the United States on August 23.

It included air defense missiles, anti-drone equipment and anti-tank missiles, ammunition, and mobile missile systems.