Canada plans to ship 80,840 surplus small unarmed air-to-surface rockets to Ukraine in addition to 1,300 warheads within the coming months, Protection Minister Invoice Blair stated in a press release on Friday.
Canada introduced an preliminary cargo of two,160 unarmed CRV7 rockets in June. Every CRV7 rocket will be geared up with warheads designed variously to hit buildings, tanks or troopers.
Canada can even donate chassis assemblies from 29 M113 armored personnel carriers and 64 Coyote armored vehicles, which the Canadian armed forces are not utilizing, Blair stated.
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Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Canada has dedicated C$4.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in navy help.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren in OttawaEditing by Matthew Lewis)