Overview
- State Department officials approved a potential $373.6 million sale of bomb guidance kits and support to Ukraine, describing it as a move to strengthen a European partner’s security.
- The package includes 1,200 KMU-572 and 332 KMU-556 JDAM tail kits along with FMU-139 fuze systems, spare parts, software, transport, and technical and logistics services.
- Boeing is named as the principal contractor for the deal.
- JDAM, short for Joint Direct Attack Munition, is a kit that bolts onto a free‑fall bomb and adds an inertial system and GPS so pilots can strike targets accurately even in poor weather.
- The State Department said the sale would help Ukraine meet current and future threats and follows a separate Pentagon release of $400 million in assistance after earlier delays pressured by U.S. lawmakers.