U.S. to supply Kosovo with $75 million’s worth of Javelin missiles
The State Department announced that this sale will improve the Balkan country's ability to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity
Eyal Boguslavsky
| 16/01/2024
oto: Stuart A Hill AMS/MOD, OGL v1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60402026
The US State Department has approved the delivery of 246 FGM-148F Javelin missiles and 24 missile launchers to Kosovo worth $75 million. In its announcement, the State Department says that this sale will improve the Balkan country's ability to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Army-technology.com website points out that Kosovo's decision to purchase Javelin anti-aircraft missiles is unusual in the context of a country defending itself against internal separatists who are unlikely to be equipped with heavy armored platforms.
The escalation in the country, following which 200 British soldiers from NATO's Joint Very High Readiness Task Force (VJTF) were sent there, began in October 2023 with a deadly attack in the north of the country in which Serbian separatists from the Srpska Lista (Serbian List) party killed a local policeman and barricaded themselves in a nearby monastery. They were only equipped with relatively "soft" means of warfare such as assault rifles, grenades, bazookas and jeeps.
The State Department announced that this sale will improve the Balkan country's ability to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity
oto: Stuart A Hill AMS/MOD, OGL v1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60402026
The US State Department has approved the delivery of 246 FGM-148F Javelin missiles and 24 missile launchers to Kosovo worth $75 million. In its announcement, the State Department says that this sale will improve the Balkan country's ability to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Army-technology.com website points out that Kosovo's decision to purchase Javelin anti-aircraft missiles is unusual in the context of a country defending itself against internal separatists who are unlikely to be equipped with heavy armored platforms.
The escalation in the country, following which 200 British soldiers from NATO's Joint Very High Readiness Task Force (VJTF) were sent there, began in October 2023 with a deadly attack in the north of the country in which Serbian separatists from the Srpska Lista (Serbian List) party killed a local policeman and barricaded themselves in a nearby monastery. They were only equipped with relatively "soft" means of warfare such as assault rifles, grenades, bazookas and jeeps.
