The US Department of Defense said that the US has sent 5,500 Javelin anti-tank missile systems to Ukraine.
“As of April 14, the US has committed more than 5,500 Javelin anti-armor systems to Ukraine since the gratuitous invasion of Russia began,” Dod said in a Twitter post on Thursday.
The Pentagon has provided Ukrainian soldiers with the Javelin anti-armor system as part of an effort to strengthen the country’s defenses against Russia. The shoulder-mounted Javelin automatically guides the projectile to the target, allowing the gunner to hide immediately after firing and avoid being hit by a counter-attack.
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Produced by defense contractors Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, the Javelin can defeat a wide range of melee threats with shoot-and-forget technology.
The armed forces of Ukraine have an urgent need for many of these special weapons in the context of Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces have also received thousands of other anti-tank weapons, including the British NLAW, the Swedish-made AT4 and Carl-Gustav, the German Panzerfaust and the Spanish Instalaza C90.
