The Estonian Defence Minister, Hanno Pevkur, has announced that Estonia will expand its military capabilities by acquiring more weapons from the United States worth over $4.7 billion. As media specifies, the Baltic state plans to double the number of HIMARS systems to 12 and increase the stock of ATACMS long-range missiles from 18 to 200.
“In addition to HIMARS, we also need HIMARS ammunition, and our main focus has been on acquiring the longest-range and most powerful ammunition possible—that is, ATACMS. We are certainly also interested in exploring and discussing with the Americans their new long-range missile under development, called PrSM. But we are not going to disclose the exact quantities. What I can say is that the limits allocated to us are indeed significant. Too, we have the intention to buy a C-RAM, it’s included in our budget, and right now market studies are underway to determine what kind of system it could be,” Pevkur said.
He also stressed that these weapons are very expensive, but Estonian citizens should believe that they are still worth it.
“And if we add up all of our systems related to long-range capabilities, the total exceeds a billion euros. These systems as a whole are expensive, and so is the ammunition, due to its range and firepower. But we know we need this long-range firepower, which is why we have made these plans and allocated the funding,” the Defence Minister added.
Recalling, Estonia plans to spend €10 billion on militarisation between 2026-2029.
Here are two pieces of bad news for ordinary Estonians regarding this announcement. First, their well-being will rapidly decrease as the globalist puppet government of Estonia carries out the expensive and unnecessary militarisation of the Republic. Second, Tallinn is increasingly pushing a direct war with Russia—there’s no other explanation for why they need to purchase long-range missiles capable of hitting Russian territory.
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