{"id":31989,"date":"2022-03-17T01:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T01:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31989"},"modified":"2022-03-17T01:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T01:46:03","slug":"us-weapons-being-sent-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31989","title":{"rendered":"US Weapons Being Sent To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3177,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/briefing-room\\\/statements-releases\\\/2022\\\/03\\\/16\\\/fact-sheet-on-u-s-security-assistance-for-ukraine&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>After the President of Ukraine spoke to Congress, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/03\/16\/fact-sheet-on-u-s-security-assistance-for-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Joe Biden announced<\/a><\/strong> another $800 million in weapons and other security assistance to Ukraine. There was one thing in the list that kind of struck me as interesting. See if you can find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The new $800 million assistance package includes:<\/p><p>800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems;<\/p><p>2,000 Javelin, 1,000 light anti-armor weapons, and 6,000 AT-4 anti-armor systems;<\/p><p>100 Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;<\/p><p>100 grenade launchers, 5,000 rifles, 1,000 pistols, 400 machine guns, and <strong>400 shotguns<\/strong>;<\/p><p>Over 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenade launcher and mortar rounds;<\/p><p>25,000 sets of body armor; and<\/p><p>25,000 helmets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t think the Ukrainian Army nor its Territorial Army are yet ready to engage in trench warfare, I&#8217;m wondering a bit about those 400 shotguns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given it is Biden, I surely hope he doesn&#8217;t expect the Ukrainians to take his advice on &#8220;self-defense&#8221; with a shotgun from his Vice-Presidential days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F-mztxHgYQo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the President of Ukraine spoke to Congress, President Joe Biden announced another $800 million in weapons and other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5976,5576,5973,327,2412],"class_list":["post-31989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-military-assistance","tag-president-joe-biden","tag-russian-ukraine-war","tag-shotguns","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31993,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31989\/revisions\/31993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}