{"id":13878,"date":"2023-06-17T03:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=13878"},"modified":"2023-06-17T03:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T08:01:50","slug":"united-states-approved-to-the-netherlands-to-sell-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=13878","title":{"rendered":"United States, approved, to the Netherlands, to sell, arms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/tag\/ssha\">The U.S.<\/a>&nbsp;State Department&nbsp;has approved a potential $611 million sale of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and related equipment to the government of the Netherlands, according to a June 16 departmental&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsca.mil\/sites\/default\/files\/mas\/Press Release - Netherlands 23-45 CN.pdf\">press release<\/a>&nbsp;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis proposed sale will support US foreign policy and national security goals by enhancing the security of a NATO ally that is the driving force behind political stability and economic progress in Europe.&nbsp;The proposed sale will enhance the ability of the Netherlands to withstand current and future threats,\u201d the document explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In total, the Dutch authorities requested from the United States up to four MQ-9A Block 5 reconnaissance and strike UAVs, up to three ground mobile control systems, up to 30 global positioning and navigation devices and other related equipment, including radars, missile launchers, transponders, spare parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is also indicated that the MQ-9A UAV will perform the tasks of reconnaissance, surveillance, target detection and reconnaissance, air attack tasks and countering maritime operations.&nbsp;The Netherlands already has MQ-9A drones in service and their introduction into the country&#8217;s armed forces does not cause any difficulties, the release states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another NATO security measure was launched in Estonia on June 3,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1522919\/2023-06-03\/krupneishie-v-etom-godu-ucheniia-nato-na-baltike-startuiut-v-estonii\">this year&#8217;s largest<\/a>&nbsp;naval exercise in the Baltic Sea, Baltops 23, with the participation of more than 30 NATO warships, alliance partners and about 3,700 marines.&nbsp;The 6th Fleet of the US Navy is responsible for organizing the exercises; preparations for the maneuvers took three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of May, military expert Alexei Leonkov, in an interview with Izvestia, called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1521335\/2023-05-31\/voennyi-ekspert-nazval-igroi-na-nervakh-ucheniia-nato-baltops-23\">Baltops 23 a game<\/a>&nbsp;of nerves.&nbsp;He recalled that Western countries nominated Estonia for the OSCE chairmanship, while Russia and Belarus opposed it.&nbsp;And now, in his opinion, NATO thus demonstrates support for Tallinn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iz.ru\/1530143\/2023-06-16\/gosdep-odobril-prodazhu-niderlandam-voennykh-bpla-i-oborudovaniia-na-611-mln\">Iz.ru<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.&nbsp;State Department&nbsp;has approved a potential $611 million sale of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and related equipment to the government of the Netherlands, according to a June 16 departmental&nbsp;press release&nbsp;. \u201cThis proposed sale will support US foreign policy and national security goals by enhancing the security of a NATO ally that is the driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[8606,8604,8605],"class_list":["post-13878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-approved","tag-to-sell","tag-to-the-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13880,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13878\/revisions\/13880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}