Source: https://t.me/DPSUkr/15164
Translation:
🇺🇸🇺🇦The USA will supply ATACMS ballistic missiles to Ukraine on a permanent basis and there will be more missiles
Source: Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba on TV channel 1+1.
The ATACMS being at their end of service life means that we would have had to spend far more to have them decomissioned properly than to just ship them to Ukraine. That and these nearly 30 year old missiles seem to still be able to get past Russian latest and greatest AA platforms. These being cluster munitions make them ideal for taking out large groups of aircraft in airfields that the HIMARS couldn’t reach. Storm shadow cruise missiles are fantastic and have a greater range but they’re much more expensive and take more effort to deploy.
Fucking finally.
Russia: Nooo this is a huge mistake, it will surely be terrible for Ukraine!
This will be huge on the Ukrainian front, because it means they can now rapid strike deep into enemy territory.
there will be more missiles
Because the ATACMS come in different flavors of how do you want to fuck with your enemy. Depending if someone is going to fight personnel or armor.
no, not really, your options is small cluster warhead with longer range or 3x bigger cluster warhead with less range (the one used in berdyansk), neither of which are effective against armour, and then there’s unitary variant, which would require direct or almost direct hit. so no, it’s only good against soft targets: aircraft on runways (not in hardened hangars or such), SAM sites, ammo depots, radar installations, unarmoured vehicles, troops in the open and so on. unitary variant might be good against command centers
that’s still a lot of valuable targets
Finally! Keep in mind these missiles are 30 years old. This is old tech at the end is service life.
US is literally printing money AND winning a war they’re not fighting AND solidifying their geopolitical position. Absolute madmen, Godspeed
While dubiously hanging dong in the Mediterranean
Well, they have a lot of experience doing that and benefits for them vastly outweigh the risk.
Haha, get fucked #Ruzzia.
Anything that makes Russia remove invading forces/equipment out of Ukrainian territory is the right move.
