RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany—Ukraine is calling for modern American fighter jets to face Russia’s overwhelming air advantage in the contested skies over the war-torn country, but senior Air Force officials say American F-16s, which require lengthy training, are not yet part of the aid picture. ...
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President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass a supplemental aid package worth $33 billion to replace the nearly-exhausted $3.5 billion Ukraine aid package passed in March. The multi-faceted replenishment includes weapons and humanitarian and economic assistance, and it would deliver $16 billion to the ...
The U.S. will take years to reconstitute the stocks of Stinger and Javelin missiles provided to Ukraine to fight Russia, a fact that puts the vulnerabilities of the defense industrial base in high relief, according to former Pentagon officials who testified before the Senate Armed ...
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III called on more than 40 nations providing defense aid to Ukraine to "move at the speed of war" at a meeting at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, focused on better coordinating the rapid transfer of weapons to the front line ...
The distinction limiting escalatory weapons appears to have melted away ahead of a Ukraine Security Consultative Group meeting hosted by Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III at Ramstein Air Base on April 26.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and Secretary of State Antony Blinken crossed the Polish land border into war-torn Ukraine April 24 just before Russia attacked five railway stations in central and western Ukraine. In Kyiv, Austin and Blinken met firsthand with the Ukrainian president, ...
“Stakeholders” from up to 40 nations will meet with Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on April 26, to discuss how to deliver extended and more lethal aid to Ukraine, the Pentagon said. The meeting is “not a NATO ministerial” ...
The whole point of Russia’s war in Ukraine could be to drag the West into World War 3, said the executive director of Congress’ Task Force on National and Homeland Security during an AFA Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies event. Peter Pry, who is also ...