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The Russian military has targeted and destroyed yet another American-made M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers of Kiev forces.
The HIMARS was reportedly destroyed in a forest near the settlement of Khotimlya in the Kharkiv direction. Video footage showing what appears to be a Iskander-M tactical quasi-ballistic missile hitting the launcher and accompanying vehicles surfaced online on June 20.
The United States has supplied Kiev forces with at least 39 HIMARS launchers since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. Germany promised to buy three more for Kiev forces earlier this year.
These launchers are typically armed with M30/M31 series GMLRS GPS-guided rockets, which have a range of more than 70 kilometers, or MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles with a range between 165 and 300 kilometers depending on the version.
The Russian military has already damaged or destroyed many of Ukraine’s HIMARS launchers using precision-guided weapons, like the Iskander-M. In addition, Russian air defense and electronic warfare means have significantly reduced the effectiveness of the system.
The Iskander-M has a range of nearly 500 kilometers. It can be armed with different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel–air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions.
The highly-maneuverable missile is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. It can be also equipped with an optical seeker with a digitized scene-mapping area correlator system for terminal guidance.
The ongoing ground operations in Kharkiv allowed the Russian military to hunt down several HIMARS launchers which were recently brought into this direction by Kiev forces to attack Russian territory with permission from the U.S.
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dummy one….😂😂😂
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you don’t like baclava? what a heathen.
one launcher per shot. done done
i’m sorry but the destruction of the himars does not seem assured, there are no secondary explosions. furthermore, in that forest a cluster warhead with a larger radius of action seems more appropriate to ensure the result.
you can await more blasts after a hit of “lancet”, but a strike of “iskander-m” (m stands for ballistic missile, k – for cruise) left no secondary explosions, all is destroyed in one big blast, if it strikes on target of truck size.
the secondary explosions night not occure if the initial blast from the attack destroyed the munitions instantly upon impact. furthermore the ukrainians don’t store their himar launchers now with munitions on-board due to the risk of losing additional unfired munitions which are expensive. likely the launcher was empty and moved to this location for hiding, field maintenance, and rearming
gee, nafo trolls are so dumb. first of all it’s not a dummy because it was filmed early on firing missiles. secondly, secondary detonations are not always the case when the launcher is destroyed. this launcher is done.
crazy glue and a can of paint… send it to warsaw for polishing…
nah, zelensky’s reconstruction cabal already sold it to china as ferrous scrap.
doesn’t nafo stand for native fuckoffs? pretty sure it does.
this downing of himars look like shooting down the bullets which is uneconomic rather destroy the place of origin.shut down the airspace in that particular area.if its town or cities neutralise the whole place.
that’s how deficit of the us budget grew to over 1 trln and is $1,2 trln now, bigger than awaited. total budget is near 6 trln, so deficit is ~20%, this is more than all expenses of the pentagon (842 bln in 2024). and 1 trln out of 6 is needed to pay interest on internal state debt. 150 thousands for 1 not big missile won’t help to save money. one package of six missile cost 900 thousands, enough to build good house (not in big city with expensive land, but still).
the american debt is like that movie, the blob. it eats everyone in its wake and just keeps growing.
icj and un are usa,britain,germany,israel and france institution of mass killing and defend and dispute the reality.so kill all the supporters of terrorist nazis in leviv,kiev kill macron,sunak,erdogan and arest biden. .
better save your daughters from those russkies. they are hell bent on busting hymens.
oh, sorry – now i see. hymens aren’t himars. please excuse my poor english.
andale hombres!
amerikunt trash exposed