{"id":47016,"date":"2022-09-23T09:34:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T06:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=47016"},"modified":"2022-09-23T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T06:34:56","slug":"congress-called-on-the-pentagon-to-speed-up-consideration-of-the-transfer-of-large-drones-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=47016","title":{"rendered":"Congress called on the Pentagon to speed up consideration of the transfer of large drones to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 23 . September . 2022 | Political News.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seventeen members of the US Congress asked Defense Minister Lloyd Austin to speed up the Pentagon&#8217;s consideration of Ukraine&#8217;s request for large combat drones, according to a letter dated Wednesday,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0reports  .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration&#8217;s plan to sell four large drones to Ukraine reportedly hit a roadblock in June amid fears the sophisticated equipment could end up in enemy hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paper&#8217;s sources said the technical objection to the sale was raised during a deeper review by the Pentagon&#8217;s Defense Technology Security Administration, the group responsible for keeping expensive technology out of enemy hands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, a plan to sell MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones, which have been in circulation since March, was approved by U.S. officials, three of the people said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A thorough risk assessment should not come at the expense of Ukrainian lives,&#8221; said a Wednesday letter signed by a bipartisan group of the US Congress, calling for the Pentagon&#8217;s review of whether it can transfer weapons to be completed &#8220;in a timely manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The letter, signed by Republicans and Democrats, refers to Ukraine&#8217;s recent territorial gains and adds that &#8220;the use of more powerful unmanned aerial systems on the battlefield will allow the Armed Forces to better hold the territory they fought so hard to regain.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 23 . September . 2022 | Political News.\u00a0 Seventeen members of the US Congress asked Defense Minister Lloyd Austin to speed up the Pentagon&#8217;s consideration of Ukraine&#8217;s request for large combat drones, according to a letter dated Wednesday,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0reports . Details US President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration&#8217;s plan to sell four large drones to Ukraine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":47021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750,10831],"tags":[1884,813,2399,1000,1024,1064],"class_list":["post-47016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","category-war-news","tag-congress","tag-russia","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47029,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47016\/revisions\/47029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}