United States will deploy two M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) units to Latvia "in support of its national readiness exercise, NAMEJS," the US Army Command in Europe and Africa said Monday.
According to the release, HIMARS systems and personnel will be deployed simultaneously to two locations in Latvia using two C-130 aircraft and US staff from the US Command's 352nd Special Operations Wing.
The development comes amid growing tension over the war in Ukraine due to Putin's announcement last week on the partial military mobilization in the country and his readiness to use "various weapons of destruction" to tackle what he defined as "nuclear blackmail" by the West.
