{"id":17659,"date":"2024-11-18T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17659"},"modified":"2024-11-18T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:22:22","slug":"the-arms-the-us-uk-and-other-nations-are-supplying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17659","title":{"rendered":"The arms the US, UK and other nations are supplying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phillips O&#8217;Brien, Professor of Strategic Studies at St Andrews University says: &#8220;Ukraine will be using the F-16s mostly for defence against air attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/f-16s-unleashed-how-they-will-impact-ukraines-war\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">says they could eventually be given extra roles<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>, such as attacking Russian air defence systems, command centres and supply depots, and engaging Russian aircraft in Ukrainian airspace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Air defence systems<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To counter Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine&#8217;s cities and infrastructure, Western nations have sent it several types of air defence system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These range from the UK&#8217;s short-range anti-aircraft weapon, Starstreak, to the Patriot missile system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-62002218\">www.bbc.co.uk\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillips O&#8217;Brien, Professor of Strategic Studies at St Andrews University says: &#8220;Ukraine will be using the F-16s mostly for defence against air attacks.&#8221; The US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies says they could eventually be given extra roles, external, such as attacking Russian air defence systems, command centres and supply depots, and engaging Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}