2,000 Hellfire missiles for Apache attack helicopters.
The Lockheed Martin precision-guided Hellfires are being used more
and more extensively by Israel now that its ground operations in Gaza dominate
the war.
30mm chain gun ammunition, also for Apache attack
helicopters. General Dynamics manufactures the latest ammunition.
57,000 155mm shells for artillery guns
400 120mm mortars
PVS-14 Night Optical Devices
M141 shoulder-fired bunker-busters, officially “bunker
defeat munitions,” the Western equivalent of Hamas RPGs and designed to engage
targets at short range. “Bunker buster” as described in the news media is
a bit misleading as the munition is used at 250 meter range to attack
above-ground fortifications.
75 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, manufactured by Oshkosh
Defense
300+ Tamir interceptors, used for Israel’s “Iron Dome”
system, and manufactured by Raytheon (RTX) in cooperation with Israel.
It would be a crying shame if you posted to social media
this list of weapons, which again, the Biden administration has gone to great
lengths to hide from the public.
The administration has repeatedly rebuffed attempts by the
press to ascertain the nature of the weapons US tax dollars are paying to
provide to Israel. Here’s a representative example from a Pentagon
press briefing last month.
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby rather
bluntly summarized the administration’s position in a press briefing last
month. Kirby said that US arms assistance to Israel is taking place “on a
near-daily basis,” but “We’re being careful not to quantify or get into too
much detail about what they’re getting — for their own operational security
purposes, of course.”
Except it isn’t true. Basic transparency about the nature
and quantity of arms assistance is no threat to operational security, as arms
expert William Hartung of the Quincy Institute said.
By comparison, the Biden administration publicizes a 3-page
long fact sheet detailing all sorts of weapons it has provided to
Ukraine, as well as quantities.
The “operational security” argument sounds like malarkey.
