{"id":5762,"date":"2018-08-23T04:10:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T04:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5762"},"modified":"2018-08-25T06:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T06:07:40","slug":"nato-receives-delivery-of-u-s-made-precision-guided-munitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/nato-receives-delivery-of-u-s-made-precision-guided-munitions\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO receives delivery of U.S.-made precision-guided munitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NATO receives first US shipment for common precision weapon stockpile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NATO Support and Procurement Agency received its first order of precision-guided munitions (PGM).<\/p>\n<p>The PGMs were procured through a NATO program involving 11 members and partners.<\/p>\n<p>The PGMs are produced in the United States and will be delivered to Belgium and Denmark in the next several weeks, <span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/news_157687.htm\" target=\"_blank\">NATO announced<\/a><\/span>. The value of the initial order is $20 million.<\/p>\n<p>The stockpile allows NATO members to draw upon each other\u2019s precision guided munitions in case of need or\u00a0in reaction to a crisis. It is intended to reduce dependence on the USA\u2019s munitions for air-to-ground strike missions, a dependency which was exposed during the Libya Operation when some allies ran out of munitions and found it difficult to use those of other air forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe realised that we needed a new, flexible approach to the provision of air-to-ground precision-guided munitions,\u201d says Rose Gottemoeller, NATO deputy secretary general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis initiative seeks to address a problem that NATO first encountered during the Libya Operation: when some Allies ran out of their stockpiles of munitions, they found it incredibly difficult to use those of other air forces. We realized that we needed a new, flexible approach to the provision of air-to-ground precision-guided munitions. I am happy that this approach is now delivering its first results,\u201d said Rose Gottemoeller, NATO Deputy Secretary General.<\/p>\n<p>The project is managed by the NSPA on behalf of the Allies. So far, 11 NATO members have joined this effort: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. NATO partner Finland is also a participant.<\/p>\n<p>NATO says it has started to build similar frameworks for the acquisition of land and maritime munitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO receives first US shipment for common precision weapon stockpile The NATO Support and Procurement Agency received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1,125],"tags":[6,357,5,59,113,7],"class_list":["post-5762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-united-states","tag-defense","tag-europe","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-security","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/A-weapons-loader-prepares-a-GBU-31-joint-direct-attack-munition-for-a-mission.-On-Wednesday-Aug.-22-2018-the-NATO-Support-and-Procurement-Agency-received-its-first-lot-of-precision-guided-munitions.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1uW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}