The Ukrainian army has received the first tranche of a large shipment of advanced U.S. anti-tank missile systems under a weapons pact inked between Washington and Kyiv in March.
The first deliveries of the the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile, the shoulder-fired weapon is armed with a so-called “fire and forget” guided missile system designed for U.S. Army infantry units are now in the hands of Ukrainian forces battling Russia-backed separatists in the former Soviet satellite state.
