Illustrative photo. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army).
On July 9, several Ukrainian news sources reported, citing the Financial Times, that the US will be supplying Ukraine with ammunition with a range of 300 kilometers for its recently acquired M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers.
The reports were hinting at the MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) which is the only ammunition with a range of 300 kilometers that can be launched from the HIMARS.
The U.S. Army’s Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) has a far longer range and more devastating firepower than the HIMARS rounds being provided to Ukraine. (U.S. Army photo).
Although the US latest $400 million military aid package to Ukraine included four addition HIMARS launchers, the supply of ATACMS ammunition was not mention in any official statement related to the package. This raises some serious doubts about the Ukrainian reports.
Adding to the doubts, the claims can’t be found anywhere on the Financial Times official website or any of the newspaper’s social media profiles.
Ukraine’s HIMARS launchers are currently armed with M30/M31 series GMLRS precision-guided rockets, which have a range of 70 kilometers only. GMLRS rockets are guided by a GPS-aided inertial navigation system and a have a circular error probable of one meter. Each launcher can be loaded with a pod of six rockets.
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The US has so far declined to supply Ukraine with ATACMSs over worries that Ukraine would use them to strike deep into Russia.
The false Ukrainian claims about a near supply of ATACMS ammunition for HIMARS launchers were likely based on recent statements by US Senator Lindsey Graham, in which he voiced his support for arming Ukraine with long-range missiles. Graham made the statement during a visit to Ukraine where he met with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles like the ATACMS will likely provoke Russia, who has already warned that it will respond to any attack on its territory with Western-supplied weapons by attacking “decision-making centers”.
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…”Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are among those who know the golden rule: “Whoever has the gold makes the rules”.”…
Time for Mr. Putin to announce the Russian Federation’s departure from the UN house of cards “Ca$in0” at 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, USA and announce the to the Pleb members that the new UN will be opening in Moscow where they will be treated as equals along with the new host abiding by the rules!…
The US has also rigged the silver markets with naked short selling of paper silver etc.
Dup
We will see,keep up the illegal criminal sanctions usa watch what happens,ungratified traitor maggots
I support the Venezuelan ballistic missile program.
İnşallah soon Putin and the Ayatollah will provide them the means…
Unconfirmed but apparently Hezbollah and Iran have Drone and missile bases there to target US in war. Russia probably has as well
Considering that the U.S. and its vassals are constantly upping the ante and increasingly the former are supplying weapons to Ukraine, this is also and not least due to the Kremlin’s inconsistent policies. Ukraine attacks power plants, dams and specifically the population of the Donbass, while the rulers in Kiev sit in palaces that are not darkened, with electricity and with Internet and telephone. It is a very strange state of affairs. On the border, the Americans and their NATO vassals are flying reconnaissance missions. The data are used to kill soldiers and especially the population of the Donbass. And they continue to fly, unmolested! There are more inconsistencies and inconsistency that make me slowly doubt the leadership qualities of a Putin, although or just because Russia is very close to my heart. Perhaps it is because the Kremlin wants to prevent a third world war at all costs. That may well be. But to show the Americans not more decidedly the borders, leads in my humble opinion only to encourage the USA to deliver more and more dangerous weapons.
Sorry, my english is bad
Exactly. Don’t fight with your one hand tied behind your back. Just do what the US does every time when they invade someone: attack the presidential residence, government ministries, electrical grid and of course bridges.
Well, the USA as a role model, I will not go that far! Basically, I find the approach to spare the Ukrainian civilian population very laudable and agree with it. Only, by the attacks of the Ukrainians on the Donbass civilian population, at least the reconnaissance activity of the NATO must be prevented and possibly also the supply of weapons more decidedly – also already in the approach to Europe – be fought. And the fact that Kiev is still supplied with electricity, while large parts of the Donbass are disconnected from the power grid, is not really conveyable and even less understandable. Russia repeatedly threatens to attack “decision-making centers” when targets in Russia are attacked. (which has already happened repeatedly – without consequences) Even worse, in the Donbass this distinction must come across as if the Russians in the Donbass were only second choice. Ukrainian soldiers – often not exactly voluntarily at the front – are burned and the masters in Kiev are spared. The peasants sacrificed and the “kings and ladies” remain unmolested.
So funny. Dont let my new wife die laughing too.
Its alwasy about USA should stop this and that. But it was Russia invading Ukraine and not us. Thats censured away apart from all te hero stories.
The russian population still has no idea about whats going on. Thats proxy war in its best. Last step from the deep selfcreated dark is Humans Rights are erased in Arnold style.
The Russians know very well, I think. They know that Ukraine has been waging a war against its own people for more than eight years and that this will now end, unlike the Ukrainian nationalists imagined!
@Stami
That’s because both, the rulers in Kiev and the rulers in russia are jewish. They do not fight or kill each other. They just want the stupid christians, resp. ukrainian and russian christian soldiers and citizens to kill each other.
Many supporters of the war are holding shares in Lockeheed Martin and in weapons. They also hold shares in banking. Target the City of London, Manchester, Major financial centres, BIS, Wall Street, the weapons warehouses, their factories, offices, research facilities, possibly including universities, their HQ and the security services who deal in mercenaries. Watch the shares tumble down. Insurance does NOT cover acts of war. AND help us to be FREE of the corrupt financial systems and the coming 666 mark of the beast trading chip. Sell us currency that will be acceptable world wide, in Russia, China, India, the Brics so that we can trade without taking that evil mark that damns souls.
That makes a lot of sense. Where would Russia be with no weapons.
You should have attacked “decision-making centers” LONG TIME AGO!!
Russia need to use his aviation, his drones and his satelites to track, identify and capture or destroy ALL these HIMARS launchers before they became a true nightmare. They are very mobile and EXTREME accurate. Despite the 70 km range write by producer, the GMRLS have a longer range. They destroy a ammo warehouse into Donetsk Republik at 82 KM from front line. Is possible to the 70 KM been related to 1m precision and at more distance – like 82 Km the precision been 3m and not 1m. But the rocket can reach the target, an Ammo depot are bigger than 3m !. In almost all day and night 1 to 3 Russian warehouses or factories are destroyed by HIMARS. And they not do nothing to resolve this. I not understand why. They have planes, they have drones, they have satellites, they have GPS signal disruptors…
I just want to remind that stupid piece of shit named Linsey Gramm that there is a shallow nuclear waste storage site in Akin South Carolina.
One nuclear strike on that facility will atomize enough radiological waste to kill everyone in close to a 500 mile radius in less than one year and everyone in South Carolina in 30 to 60 days.
My family lives in South Carolina and I’m in Washington State. So shut the fuck up before someone hunts you down.
One more stupid outburst like that and we will be playing a round of assassination politics. So shut the fuck up before you get my family and everyone I care about killed.