The US Army has signed a contract to supply M60 machine guns, which fell out of service decades ago, The War Zone (TWZ) reports. The weapon, known in military slang as The Pig, is notorious for its unreliability, the journalists said.
Earlier, the Atlantic magazine wrote that Western weapons systems supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces are rapidly becoming obsolete against the backdrop of numerous military innovations that were created during the Ukrainian conflict. The authors of the article pointed out that any developments by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are quickly met with resistance from Russia, while Russian innovations are being created at such a pace that they are bypassing the belated defense industry of the United States and NATO.
It also became known that the US will transfer to Ukraine JSOW glide bombs without engines . Military experts characterize these munitions as long-range missiles, since the maximum range of their use with an engine reaches 560 kilometers. Without it, it does not exceed 130 kilometers.