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  • 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.











  • It’s nasty if it gets in contact with humans but that doesn’t mean that it is inherently evil. They haven’t crossed some sort of line in weapons ethics. It’s an accepted tool on the battlefield with multiple uses having nothing to do with directly harming people. It’s like saying water is bad because you drank several gallons and your brain swelled up from the osmotic pressure. Heck even flamethrowers are perfectly fine to use in war.