Mexican TV Spots Anti-Tank Missile Launcher That Has Been Sent to Ukraine in Hands of Cartel
The report said the launcher could be a Javelin
anti-tank system but online observers said it could be an AT-4, both have been
sent to Ukraine
by Dave DeCamp Posted
on June 1, 2023
Mexican TV has reported that a militant affiliated
with Mexico’s Gulf Cartel was spotted carrying an advanced rocket
launcher, the same type that the US has shipped thousands
of to Ukraine.
Azucena Uresti, a news anchor for Milenio TV, identified the rocket launcher as
a Raytheon-made Javelin anti-tank missile system, which the US has been
providing Ukraine since 2018.
Over 10,000 Javelins have
been poured into Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion last year.
Some online observers have said that the launcher
shown in the TV report looks more like a Swedish-made AT-4
anti-armor system, which the US has also shipped to Ukraine.
The main difference between the two anti-tank weapons is that the Javelin fires
a guided missile while an AT-4 munition is unguided, and the AT-4 is meant for
just one use.
Since the US and its allies began flooding Ukraine
with weapons, there have been multiple reports of arms winding up in other
countries. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said last year that
“terrorists” in the Lake Chad region of Africa were armed with weapons from
Ukraine.
“Regrettably, the situation in the Sahel and the
raging war in Ukraine serve as major sources of weapons and fighters that
bolster the ranks of the terrorists in the Lake Chad region,” Buhari said in November 2022.
In October 2022, Finland’s national law enforcement
agency, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), warned in October that
arms meant for Ukraine had wound up in the hands of criminal gangs in Finland.
The NBI also said that weapons meant for Ukraine were found in Sweden, Denmark,
and the Netherlands.
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