Czechs counter Trump with crowdfunded Black Hawk helicopter for Ukraine

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• Typotyper@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Counter US by crowd funding purchase of US made helicopter

  Don’t buy anything US

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  • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That is a bit of a made up story for the headline, this campaign has been in the works for over a year, the original plan was a more expensive European one but the funding was going to take years and had largely stalled, so they found a cheaper one that was a later model, as they put it:

    This journey began on November 17 last year, when we launched a campaign to provide the Ukrainian Army with a Black Hawk helicopter. While we made significant progress initially, the momentum slowed after a few months due to criticism from some voices claiming Ukraine didn’t need this machine and had other priorities for victory. Over the past several months, we’ve been in discussions with representatives of Ukrainian intelligence. HUR (Ukrainian military intelligence) has urged us to continue and complete this campaign. With their cooperation, we identified a helicopter outside Europe that is €1.3 million cheaper and even slightly newer.

    www.weaponstoukraine.com/kampane/cestmir

    There are still other active campaigns here:

    www.weaponstoukraine.com/…/vsechny-kampane

    in particular:

    www.weaponstoukraine.com/…/armored-vehicles

    The basis of the campaign is a Pinzgauer armoured patrol car with 6x6 all-wheel drive. The vehicle will be purchased from army reserves in perfect condition.

    Manufactured in Austria and later England :)

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• Today@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  u24.gov.ua

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