 U.S. to send vampires to Ukraine. U.S. officials are set to announce another 1.3 billion U.S. dollar arms package for Ukraine, including multiple types of suicide drones and the newly developed Vampire rocket launch system according to Reuters. The latest military assistance will be unveiled sometime this week, the outlet reported, citing two U.S. officials. Kiev will receive ammunition, radar and other counter drone systems in addition to the Vampire or vehicle agnostic modular palletized ISR rocket equipment produced by U.S. arms contractor L3 Harris. The Vampire can be mounted on most vehicles with a cargo bed, including civilian pickup trucks or installed in a fixed position. The weapon consists of a targeting sensor and a launch pod equipped with four 70 millimeter laser guided rockets and can be used by a single operator against both air and ground targets. While L3 Harris says the system is configurable with different sensors and weapons packages, it remains unclear which variants will be provided to Kiev. The upcoming weapons package will also include two types of loitering munitions, drones equipped with explosives, which orbit the battlefield in search of a target, the Phoenix Ghost and the Switchblade. Both UAVs have been sent to Ukraine in the past with nearly 600 Phoenix Ghosts supplied in a $95 million arms shipment last year.