The Estonian Defense Ministry intends to supply Ukraine with weapons, Javelin missiles for anti-tank missile systems and a howitzer. This was reported by ERR, referring to the head of the international cooperation department of the Estonian Ministry of Defense, Peeter Kuymet.

According to him, Tallinn is considering the possibility of providing Javelin with howitzers and 122mm howitzers and ammunition for them.

At the same time, the representative of the military department pointed out that it is not easy to transfer the so-called fatal weapons to another country. So, for example, for the transfer of Javelin, it is necessary that the United States give its permission for this (these missiles are produced in this country).

“In the case of the howitzers that we bought from Finland, which, in turn, bought them from Germany, we must ask Germany and Finland to agree to the transfer of weapons, and we have already started this process with these countries,” Kuymet said.

Earlier, the deputy of the Rada from the faction of the pro-presidential party "Servant of the People" Igor Kopytin confirmed that the Ukrainian army used the Javelin anti-tank missile system in Donbass.

The Javelin is a weapon produced by the Raytheon-Lockheed Martin Javelin joint venture that can be fired from the shoulder and mounted on tracked, wheeled or amphibious vehicles. Raytheon is responsible for the Command Launch Unit (CLU), electronic missile guidance unit, system software, and systems engineering management. Lockheed Martin is responsible for the missiles themselves, design and assembly. It is known that these ATGMs were widely used by the American army in Afghanistan and Iraq to carry out combat missions.

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