The US State Department has approved a possible foreign military sale to Ukraine of 1,532 Joint Direct Attack Munition tail kits at an estimated total cost of $373.6 million, according to a congressional notification published on 5 May 2026.
The proposed sale covers 1,200 KMU-572 JDAM tail kits and 332 KMU-556 JDAM tail kits, both of which are the Extended Range variant that significantly extends the glide distance of standard unguided bombs after release from aircraft.
The sale also includes FMU-139 fuze systems, support equipment, spare and repair parts, weapons software, technical documentation and contractor support services. The principal contractor is Boeing, based in St Louis, Missouri.
JDAM-ER kits convert unguided gravity bombs into precision-guided glide weapons, extending their range to approximately 70 kilometres when released from altitude, significantly increasing the standoff distance from which Ukrainian aircraft can strike targets without entering heavily defended airspace.
The extended range variant has been used by Ukraine since the UK became the first country to supply them in early 2023, with subsequent supplies from Australia and other partners.
The State Department said the proposed sale would support US foreign policy and national security objectives by improving the security of a partner country described as a force for political stability and economic progress in Europe, and would improve Ukraine’s capability to conduct self-defence and regional security missions.
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I net the US did not donate these – instead they were funded by Europe. The US likes to make money out of war. I think the UK only paid off its debt to the US for WW2 in 2006! The sold us stuff to fight Hitler not gave us the kit.
I don’t think you are telling the entire story, Rob. Most of the $31Bn ($650Bn today dollars) worth of ammunition, food, weapons, aircraft and ships were given, not loaned. The weapons and ships that were intact at the end of the war were to be returned or paid for at a percentage of their perceived value. The Lend-Lease Act followed the Destroyers for Bases Act where the US got the temporary use of UK Caribbean bases in exchange for 50 badly needed (although outdated) destroyers.
“Materiel delivered under the act was supplied at no cost, to be used until returned or destroyed. In practice, most equipment was destroyed, although some hardware (such as ships) was returned after the war. Supplies that arrived after the termination date were sold to the United Kingdom at a large discount for £1.075 billion, using long-term loans from the United States, which were finally repaid in 2006. Similarly, the Soviet Union repaid $722 million in 1971, with the remainder of the debt written off.”
And:
“Lend-Lease items retained were sold to Britain at 10% of nominal value, giving an initial loan value of £1.075 billion for the Lend-Lease portion of the post-war loans. Payment was to be stretched out over 50 annual payments, starting in 1951 and with five years of deferred payments, at 2% interest.”
So Britain retained 1/3 of the items loaned, and were charged at 10% of their perceived value, which meant they paid back approximately 3% of the value of the items they received and they got 50 years to pay that back.
They paid $1Bn (plus 2% interest) paid over 50 years for the loan of $30Bn. That is not exactly a mercenary deal on the part of the US.
You might want to do some research on how that all went. Just say thank you.