Screen grab from a video by MBDA showing a live-fire test of the Brimstone.
On December 17, the British Ministry of Defence confirmed that it had supplied Brimstone II precision-guided missiles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
The ministry said that the missiles were provided as a part of a new military aid package meant to support Ukraine’s fight against Russia.
“This aid has played a crucial role in stalling Russian advances,” the ministry said on Twitter.
Following the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, the United Kingdom pledged to supply the AFU with hundreds of ground-launched Brimstone missiles. The Brimstone missiles previously supplied to Ukraine were of the first generation which utilizes an active millimetric-wave radar seeker and an inertial navigation system.
The more advanced Brimstone II adds a semi-active laser seeker, which increases accuracy and provides more flexibility when it comes to target accusation.
The maximum range of the ground-launched version of the Brimstone is unknown, but the air-launched version can reportedly hit targets more than 20 kilometers away. The missile is armed with a 6,3 kilograms tandem shaped charge warhead.
The UK developed special ground missile launchers for the AFU by simply bolting a triple Brimstone launcher rack used on aircraft onto the back of a truck.
The Russian military has already captured several Brimstone missiles that failed after launch, and managed to destroy at least one launcher.
The first generation of Brimstone missiles failed to make any real impact on the battlefield in Ukraine. The more advanced Brimstone II missiles are more lethal, but will not likely do better. The UK’s decision to supply these missiles may be a sign that its stockpiles of the Brimstone old generation were depleted.
Aren’t these supposed to be nuclear tipped missiles? LOL. Just kidding. It’s going to be VERY difficult for Russia to sustian its operation in Ukraine. This has all signs of another Afghanistan. Putin is between a rock and a hard place. If he continues the war indefinitely, it’ll significantly drain Russia’s resources, manpower, and weaken the economy. It’ll also put him at a disadvantage in Libya, Syria, and even N-K. If he withdraws, Russia will be humiliated and lose credibility worldwide. Its arms market will also shrink drastically as countries start to doubt their efficacy.
The only viable option in my opinion is to really escalate by sending in 100s of thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine, taking over the whole country, and installing a Moscow-friendly regime. That’s when Russia can withdraw with some dignity left. But the way America & Europe are arming and funding Ukraine, it’s seemingly impossible for Russia to conqure that country.
Yup those game changing weapons really change everything didn’t it? What it did change was for people/companies that were making those weapons – they got richer.
Read the 2nd part of this BS he write, this dude lost it (it doesn’t make any sense). Dose this clown knows what is the purposes of Russia SMO?
No, no, 100s is too much. 10 brave Russians and 3 days are enough. Hura! Hura! Hura!
Why Russia tolerate direct arms delivering to Ukraina? The GB ministry said that the missiles were provided as a part of a new military aid package meant to support Ukraine’s fight against Russia, and why Russia is silent?
I have been wondering why every airport and rail hub in Ukraine is still in one piece?
It would seem that the Russians want these weapons to come in so that they can destroy them. This is part of the demilitarization of Nato.
Exactly, I’m not the only one thinking this, not only bleeding them militarily but economically
NATO collectively has deep pockets, what it’s doing is putting pressure on taxpayers of each respective member nation, not directly, however by proxy, by virtue of the fact that while domestic issues of importance to people are ignored all this money for ordinance and assets is being spent on a stupid geopolitical venture that should never have happened in the first place.
Phase 2 of this plan is the people of each member nation of NATO getting fed up with their governments and forcing the irresponsible spending on weapons and vehicles and ordinance to stop.
Those people has absolutelly no power and it was proven during covid scamdemia. The Establishment destroyed the lives and livelyhoods of entire nations and we could do shit about that.
Just as Eastern Ukrainian people has no power to defend themselves from Ukronazis.
If you imagine “the people” is more than a dependent pathetic bunch of sheeple you are wrong. This is what Putin failed to understand when going halfheartedly into that region and offering a chance to USSA mercenaries to bleed the Russian Army for their publicity stunt.
What they collectively have are deep Debt instruments. The collective West is completely broke, out of resources, out of time.
maybe russia is hoping they wont have to demolish everything but that would depend on zelenskys surrender hold your breath for that
I will tell you how it will play out in the intermediate.
Ukraine will hit an impasse, where they can no longer manage to mount offensives, there will be some sort of implied cessation of hostilities, however that will give way to terroristic incursions into eastern Ukraine by disgruntled actors and people paid for by western intelligence agencies.
Eventually some of these people will get caught and Russia will put the screws to them hard and some of them will talk and reveal who, if anyone gives them the orders to perform terroristic acts.
It will be less like the shelling that occurred for the last eight years, because that will be easy to deal with now because Russia can smack them individually with drones or missiles. It will be dealing with physical people posing as civilians committing criminal acts, more difficult to deal with, however greater consequences for Ukraine and Zelensky when those people get caught.
The alternative, that I believe is possible however very unlikely is that the U.S takes a more active role and starts using assets that they really shouldn’t be using because it will sharply increase the risk of nuclear war.
This includes stealth aircraft to strike strategic targets, this is again however very unlikely because the fallout from it will be catastrophic, and NATO is aware of this.
Easy, its fifth dimensional warfare.
because the Anglo-Ameriscums™ next war on a third world country of sheep farmers Russia will provide any military support to dispatch every ameriscum to Beelzebub for keeping company with Madeleine Albright
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What a joke, 50% failure rate and about 12Km range when ground launched which is what the Ukrats will have to do with them.
Are they guided by satnav? Because a 12km range would mean that they have only a 2km standoff range before they are in range of Russia’s new starlink detection hardware that can work up to 10kms away.
Lets hope for UK HMG and UK Armed Forces sake it never kicks off again in Northern Ireland or other places dear to the hearts of the British establishment.
It would be nice if you guys told us how many the UK send them? Also, this is what Ukraine soldiers most of time say, “we are getting shelled 24/7 and have to leave over positions due to heavy shelling – we don’t even see Russia troops most of the time.”
Is that going to change the war for Ukraine, hell nah. Also, SF really give us the amount pls.
No it’s going to get worse for all crews that operate with starlink terminals due to the fact that Russia has developed hardware to detect such terminals up to 10km away. It’s not pinpoint accurate but it doesn’t need to be.
10km seems like a far distance to walk, however it’s not far at all when you’re outnumbered or outgunned and have to make a retreat.
Russia also made an upgrade to their air defence systems to hit HIMARS missiles and what you said, but again we have to wait and see.
So we won. Not yet? One street maybe? No? One house? No either? Perhaps a washing machine?
If the air launched one is only 20k, the ground lauched will be less, virtually useless
Next time UK do it again, Russia will retaliate by hitting a command centre in Severitsky inside Ukraine killing many more of our Slavic brothers. But only if UK do it again one more time.
Posaidon, london. What a big splash would be.
Russia needs to send a sabotage team and blow up the gas pipelines to Britain. It’s time to get even for Nordstream.
Don’t need to, the 5D chess move is to let Britain rip itself apart, and that is already happening.
You can’t terrorize a country more than the British government is by implementing climate lockdowns for people, they’re literally going to make a prison of their own country for people who aren’t elites.
Ever read the book 1984? It’s a meme, but the U.K will literally be like that if things continue to trend as they are.
A most mutually embarrassing military exercise would be Britain launching their Brimstones and USA intercepting them with their Patriots.
You are a genius! This is exactly the scenario which is going over Ukrainian cities and they blame Russians for “indiscriminate bombing”
anglos confirm they are moron fascists
Poor russian nazis, everyday is getting worse for them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
All if not most of this equipment is coming in from via Germany and Poland to Ukraine. It would be simple to take out their nato bases where these and other military hardware is being delivered to. Again west Ukraine needs special attention from Russian counter measures as to these nato military deliveries destroy them before they land on the ground….
Nuke London.
This reminds me of something my dad said to me a few times when I was 18 years old (I’m 76 years old now).
I had a 1955 Chevrolet two door post sedan which was a popular hotrod car back then, and I was working a factory job that paid fairly good wages (I was making quite a bit more money than most of my friends), and I spent a lot of the money I made on that car. It had nearly 400 hp. which was a lot of hp for a street car at that time. But things were always breaking (because of too much hp) and I spent a lot of money fixing those problems.
One day my dad and I were standing in the kitchen talking and I had just bought several boxes of expensive car parts that I had on the kitchen table, and he said: “You could save yourself a lot of time and trouble if you cashed your paycheck every week and came and put the money in the garbage disposal.” He said it several times during the year I owned that car and he would be grinning every time he said it.