Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will visit Pennsylvania ammunition factory to thank workers

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Source: PA Patriot-News/Penn Live AP

Updated: Sep. 21, 2024, 3:37 p.m.|Published: Sep. 21, 2024, 3:36 p.m.


WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday will visit the Pennsylvania ammunition factory that is producing one of the most critically needed munitions for his country’s fight to fend off Russian ground forces.

He is expected to go to the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant to kick off a busy week in the United States shoring up support for Ukraine in the war, according to two U.S. officials and a third familiar with Zelenskyy’s schedule who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details that were not yet public. He also will address the U.N. General Assembly annual gathering in New York and travel to Washington for talks on Thursday with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Scranton plant is one of the few facilities in the country to manufacture 155 mm artillery shells. They are used in howitzer systems, which are towed large guns with long barrels that can fire at various angles. Howitzers can strike targets up to 15 miles to 20 miles (24 kilometers to 32 kilometers) away and are highly valued by ground forces to take out enemy targets from a protected distance.

Ukraine has already received more than 3 million of the 155 mm shells from the U.S. With the war now well into its third year, Zelenskyy has been pushing the U.S. for permission to use longer range missile systems to fire deeper inside of Russia.

Read more: https://www.pennlive.com/life/2024/09/ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-will-visit-pennsylvania-ammunition-factory-to-thank-workers.html

[Deuxcents]

1. I hope he gets a big reception. His country is fighting so we don't have to.

[rickford66]

2. I worked there for a short while after my NAVY discharge in 1971.

Pretty dangerous place. Hats off to those union workers.

[KS Toronado]

3. I believe Zelenskyy should have missiles

that will travel as far as the missiles Putin is using against them. Target Putin's entire military industrial
complex and all his oil refineries.

[Justice matters.]

6. They're doing that with cardboard drones made in Australia.

Small drones that can't be seen on Russia's radars thanks to their materials.

[KS Toronado]

7. Interesting, hadn't heard of cardboard drones

I believe to be radar evasive requires no rounded leading edges. I'm sure the engineers have
figured out how to press layers of cardboard together with sharp corners.

[Justice matters.]

8. Video about these drones on YouTube here:

Ukraine's flat-pack cardboard drones destroying Russian jets

In text: https://www.forcesnews.com/technology/cardboard-drones-held-together-elastic-bands-and-tape-used-ukraine

[KS Toronado]

9. Wow those are cool, engineers are awesome!

The narrator was misinformed though when he mentioned radar was unable to track them because
they were cardboard. Did you notice every part of the drone was a flat surface? Even the leading edge
of the wing when looking close is a series of long flats, flat is what evades radar. Thanks for the link.

[GiqueCee]

4. I have a question...

... Ukrainians use the same Cyrillic alphabet as do Russians. To translate from say, French, to English, ones employs the same alphabet in either language. But to translate from Ukrainian to English requires the extra step of transliteration, because the alphabets are different.
How then do we justify using two "Y"s at the end of Zelensky's surname? Is it pure affectation, or is there a valid explanation for it?
Inquiring minds want to know.

[oasis]

5. ImWithHim