The United States will provide $3 billion in new military aid to Ukraine, which will include Bradley-type armored infantry, the White House announced Friday.
This assistance, details of which the Pentagon will give later in the day, should also include armored personnel carriers and Howitzer howitzers, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said.
Washington and Berlin had already announced on Thursday that they would deliver armored infantry to Kyiv, of the Bradley type on the American side and the Marder type on the German side, but had not indicated the models.
A “tank killer”
In service since the 1970s, the Marder are light armored personnel carriers. Its main armament is a 20mm cannon.
The Bradleys are machines from more or less the same family, in service since the early 1980s. In the M2 model, they are equipped with a 25mm cannon as well as an anti-tank missile launcher, and can carry, in addition to the crew, six fighters.
The Bradley “isn’t a tank, it’s a tank killer,” Pentagon spokesman General Ryder said Thursday.
“We are convinced that this will help (Ukrainian forces) a lot on the battlefield,” he added.
Source: BFM TV
