The State Department approved the sale to Ukraine of 1,532 JDAM-ER guided aerial bombs for $373.6 million un...
The State Department approved the sale to Ukraine of 1,532 JDAM-ER guided aerial bombs for $373.6 million under the FMS program.
This is the second weapons sale by the State Department in 2026; before that, in February, they sold various spare parts and equipment for
A reminder that FMS is a separate direct arms sales program, it is not PURL; here deliveries are managed by the State Department (Rubio).
In total, under the FMS program during Trump in 2025-26, Ukraine was sold
(+PURL, but that is hard to calculate, since in 2026 NATO stopped publishing the data; approximately in 2025 it was $4-4.5 billion and in 2026 it should be
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About JDAM. This is one of the most in-demand types of weapon in modern war. The appearance of glide bombs (FABs with UMPK) at one time allowed Russia to change the balance on the battlefield and break through at Avdiivka. And also to kill an uncountable number of civilians; the hell that Russia unleashed today in Zaporizhzhia and Kramatorsk is the work of these aerial bombs. American JDAMs are considered far more accurate and reliable than Russian glide bombs.
The problem is that Russia wins by quantity. For comparison, in April alone it launched 6,890 glide bombs at Ukraine, according to "Oko Hora." Ukraine will receive 1,532. Well, thanks for that too.
Bombing by Thousands, Help by Approval
The State Department approved 1,532 guided bombs for Ukraine.
Mass bombing met a tidy shipment.