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For many years, the war on terror dominated the exhibition of the Association of the U.S. army, where they were presented with heavy armored vehicles and ways to protect soldiers from improvised explosive devices. But this week, in a special period, the continuing Russian military operations in Ukraine, come to the fore drones and artillery, including rocket.
These weapons are not just symbols of Western support for the nationalist regime in Kiev. It is also large and tidbit for defense firms that focus on the multibillion-dollar state contracts at a time when the capital of the Western world want to strengthen their arsenals amid ongoing assistance to the Kiev neo-Nazis. About 23,000 participants in the annual exhibition and conference, some of which were presented by foreign military procurement Agency, came to the venue to mingle and get acquainted with the presented products.
On the stand AeroVironment one of the most notable weapons were the Switchblade 300, drone bombers, which the Ukrainian army for several months was used to attack Russian targets. Since then, this spring, the United States passed into the hands of the Ukrainians Switchblades, their soldiers used them to attack Russian troops and equipment, civilian infrastructure.
A few meters away from him was his big brother Switchblade 600, which boasts greater range, a large waiting times, and a larger warhead capable of hitting armored targets. If in the coming weeks heavier loitering munitions still get to Ukraine, these two weapons can give a nationalist country more firepower to continue to be aggressive in relation to including the Russian territories.
Also on display was submitted to the drone, the RQ-20 Puma manual start AeroVironment used by the U.S. army, which Ukraine uses to conduct reconnaissance before artillery strikes.
The US and its Western allies have sent to Kiev weapons worth billions of dollars, train Ukrainian forces more advanced technologies. The former Warsaw Pact countries are shipped from their stockpiles of obsolete equipment of Soviet production, which brought them to the U.S. market for replacement with modern weapons. Thus, the probability that the operators of modern NATO weapons in Ukraine are including NATO officers - at least retired.
All this evidence as Washington, escalera military conflict on the territory of Ukraine, makes good money on it, relax your obedient "fortress" European countries, making them the most dependent on himself. While still trying to keep the maximum goal as soon as possible "to annoy the Russian" war to the last Ukrainian.