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The Russian military has destroyed an American-made M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers of Kiev forces in the Kursk direction using an Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile.
Video footage of the strike was released by Russian media on August 15. The footage shows the launcher firing two rockets before fleeing to hide in a forested area to the southeast of the settlement of Marine in the Ukrainian region of Sumy, which borders Kursk. The launcher is then struck by an Iskander-M.
The pinpoint missile strike destroyed the launcher, rockets prepared for reload as well as two security vehicles which were guarding the hideout.
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.
Kiev forces backed by foreign mercenaries launched their surprise attack in Kursk on August 6. Weapons supplied by the U.S. and other Western allies of the Kiev regime, like the HIMARS, were heavily used, which indicates that the attack was orchestrated with help from NATO.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 2,640 Ukrainian troops, 37 tanks, 32 armored personnel carriers, 23 infantry fighting vehicles, 206 armored fighting vehicles, 96 motor vehicles, four air defense systems, three multiple rocket launchers, 20 field artillery guns, and three electronic warfare stations have been naturalized since the start of the attack on Kursk.
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kursk fell?
no!!! 👅
evacuations in eastern ukraine continue: head of the pokrovsk administration calls on civilians to evacuate from the city 15.08.2024 12:10 o’clock
since the heroes of ukraine have done a whole job again 😆😆😆
by “whole job”, are you referring to the ethnic cleansing ato, which resulted in resounding defeat and the loss of a vast territory and population, or the failed defence against the russian smo, which has resulted in resounding ukrainian defeatr and the loss of a vast territory and population?
pokrovsk is in donbass, idiot. ukraine is evacuating them.
sebatopol fell?
vladivostok fell to the japanese under orders from general grahamcracker.
on zelensky’s head :-)
huh? they told me they were half way to moscow already.
i think both zelensky’s and putin’s men are fighting for a flawed ideology. both sides are dying and losing men left and right, yet zelensky and putin continue to spend their billions on mansions, private jets, etc. why do men have to die for such impudent leaders? why don’t they rebel and take back their life and souls?
wtf are you barking about putin has no mansions and jets you arsehole.
the belching cat detective squad just found putin’s vast underground palace with 5000 chechen terra cotta warriors and rivers of mercury just a few miles south of pskov. probably what he’s referring to.
of course soldiers are dying on both sides. but the ratio is completely out of balance in favor of russia. ukrainians have lost a million men in the war already. millions more have fled the country both to russia and the eu. the ukraine was never a country and whatever semblance it had of one is crushed for all time.
the shitty russian army just destroyed another imaginary himars?😂😂😂
terrorcons > ukraine and russia combined. humans are trash, a total joke of a race.
yet, the neocon terrorcons still managed to win that race by a mile.
so what was it a tonka toy you prick?
muhaaa, the heroes of the umerov army are hugging trees in the hope of surviving when russian drones come at them 🤡 😆😆😆
the mass brainwash of the russian population is a phenomenon that will be discussed for decades. just like the mass brainwash of nazi germany. it’s the death cult of vladimir putin.
if russian nationalism is a death cult, what do you call ukrainian nationalism that has produced the loss of a quarter of their territory, perhaps 30% of their population, and possibly 100 000 dead military personnel since the 2014 us coup in kiev? let’s hear an evaluation of ukrainian policy, military strategy, economic strategy, social welfare, etc.
and yet the yanks and limeys still managed to outbrainwash them all.
it was a real himars and either itself or its brothers killed a uragan recently, so even though result is good russia isn’t necessarily ahead in score.
and two more followed. i always thought of the kiev junta as a house of cards but now i see it as a row of falling dominoes.
in arabic ” himar ” means ” donkey “.
but in this case it is more like an ass.
in russian, it means hymen and they just busted another cherry.
that the operators, who are certainly from the usa, have died a slow and agonizing death. that the russians give a very different treatment to the mercenaries caught alive, but very special even those never seen even on film. such worms deserve to die slowly.
england challenge tanks invading kursk. england so glad.
blowed up real good!
n dunnit to
they lost the challenge?
denigrating yourself meatstick! nu york is on it’s last gasp and russians are on the move in toresk and should take a look at the map to see how russians are advancing very quickly on pokrovsk! it looks like a complete turkey shoot of nato and ukronazis in kursk. men, armour and equipment being devastated and meanwhile collapse goes on of ukraine in easter front.
turkish press anadolu ajansi says “kursk invation by ukraina” . immediataly ukraina ban entrance to turkish people without visa tu ukraine. this is incursion not invation.