The US’s latest assist to Ukraine: Rocket launchers with a 43-mile range

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A total of eight High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, will help Ukraine. Here's what they do.

While towed artillery can be set up, fired, and then driven away from where it fired, self-propelled artillery like the HIMARS lets the vehicle drive away immediately after firing, taking full advantage of its range and mobility to attack enemies and escape retaliation.Each rocket carries a 200-pound explosive warhead, which is powerful enough to destroy a building, a group of soldiers in the open, other artillery, and any vehicle unfortunate enough to be hit.

One possible use for the HIMARS is to shoot beyond the front lines and hit supply depots, hobbling the ability of Russian forces to resupply themselves close to the fighting.The HIMARS is still a human-driven and human-operated system, and delivering a weapon also means training a crew on how to use it in combat. Lockheed Martin

it takes a three-person crew to operate in combat, though the whole apparatus of training, resupplying, and ensuring there’s a durable artillery corps can involve many people., a senior defense official said: “So in this case for the HIMARS training, you know, [it takes] a couple weeks.”While HIMARS is the headlining artillery item, the United States has also provided Ukraine with 126 155mm howitzers and 260,000 rounds of ammunition for those howitzers.

Both Ukraine and Russia inherited arsenals from the Soviet Union, which built a massive military that was

 

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You just reposted an article of yours from last summer? lol

DC warmongers STOP!

The first target of Ukrainian forces with the American HIMARS MLRS systems was a hospital in Izyum. They reported it as a “Russian military base”. The USA 'winning hearts and minds' again.

If I recall, supplying arms to to your enemy is what drew countries into the two world wars. Not a good idea.

Here’s what they will do: Get is into a war with Russia, and lead to WW3.

They will give Ukraine the capability of killing more civilians. End of story.

Look. Militarising a nation is now called 'assist'. And when Israel-usa-europe suround you with nukes is called 'defense'. We live in a media driven shity world run by colonist, elite, imperialism fanatics.

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