The Pentagon has committed nearly $2.3 billion to defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin Corp. in its drive to restock weapons stockpiles that have been depleted by U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine over the past year.
and other contractors have been given commitments of $901 million out of a potential $1.4 billion to provide Kyiv with replacement 155mm howitzer ammunition.has so far committed some $9.7 billion to rebuild U.S. weapons stockpiles, out of a total $26 billion appropriated for that purpose by Congress. Some critics of the war say the Biden administration should be more careful in its spending and aid provisions given falling U.S. arsenals, butis not charity.
Washington is sending “an important message” to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as “would-be authoritarian aggressors around the world that the United States will act in response to naked aggression,” he said. “Planting that thought firmly in the heads of decision makers in Beijing, Moscow, Tehran and Pyongyang is money well spent that can help discourage future wars of aggression that would extract a much greater cost from Americans.
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