The United States of Lockheed Martin Scores Big in Poland

Editor's note: It's not as if Russia doesn't get to test out some of their new military hardware in Ukraine either including a system they are tweaking to bring down rockets fired from the HIMARS rocket system. At Russia's request, Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters spoke at the United Nations Security Council meeting on February 8th. Roger Waters condemned the for-profit military industrial complex. And Americans actually think the CEO of US Inc. Biden makes the decisions. How is this for a ping pong match: Lockheed Martin (balloons mean profits) manufactures the HIMARS rockets and Russia gets to shoot them down. If it weren't for the fact so many Ukrainian soldiers are being mauled this would be hilarious. It is called the "Defense Security Cooperation Agency" that secured the sales. It should be the Profit Security Cooperation Agency instead. Do you ever get the feeling someone inside the United States of Lockheed Martin knows someone inside of the Kupol Electro-Mechanical Plant?

Roger Waters Says Ukraine Invasion Was 'Not Unprovoked' at UN Security Council 

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Source: Pravda

US plans to sell $10 billion worth of weapons to Poland

The US has approved a possible sale to Poland of $10 billion worth of weapons, mostly M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers and related equipment.

European Pravda — Tuesday, February 7, 2023  

Source: The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)

Details: The Republic of Poland has requested to buy 18 M142 HIMARS launchers; 468 HIMARS Launcher Loader Module kits; 45 M57 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS); and a total of 1,514 multiple launch rocket system warhead pods.

Poland has also requested reduced range practice rockets; support equipment; communications equipment; spare and repair parts; other related equipment; personnel training and US government and contractor engineering and logistics personnel services.

"This proposed sale will support the foreign policy goals and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of a NATO Ally that is a force for political stability and economic progress in Europe," the DSCA said.

The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region and will have no adverse impact on US defence readiness, according to the DSCA.

Background: The first contract for the purchase of American HIMARS systems was signed in 2019. The Polish Ministry of National Defense ordered 20 HIMARS systems from the US defence corporation Lockheed Martin. It intended to use two of the artillery rocket systems in combat and two for training.

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An expensive ping pong match...

Here is a United States of Lockheed Martin info commercial for the M142 HIMARS rocket system launching munitions that run over $120,000 per rocket...

Here is the Russian Almaz Antey JSC: Russian TOR-M2E Air Defense System that can shoot down $120,000 HIMARS rockets with rockets that run about $26,000 a piece...

    

Here is Roger Waters wondering wtf?

What else does Lockheed Martin have flying around up there?

The United States of Lockheed Martin tooling up for war in space:

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