The US will provide Ukraine with longer-range missiles for rocket launchers than previously thought, a top Pentagon official has revealed
The US is sending Ukraine heavy guided missiles with a range of 70km for use with the HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl revealed on Tuesday. The White House previously said that HIMARS launchers would be provided with “battlefield munitions,” widely understood to be unguided rockets with a shorter range.
The high-mobility artillery rocket system will come with GMLRS guided rockets, Kahl said on Tuesday, speaking at a conference hosted by the Center for New American Security (CNAS), a Democrat-linked think tank for which he used to work.
“Sometimes when you see images of MLRS firing off, it’s like salvos of multiple rockets going off at the same time. That’s really not how this system is meant to operate,” Kahl said.
“The GMLRS is a precision guided munition, and a big one – a 500 pound munition,” he added. “Think of GMLRS more like the effect of an airstrike rather than launching off whole salvos. So, in other words, you can do a lot with a little, or you don’t need a lot to have a significant effect.”
When the White House first announced it was sending HIMARS launchers to Ukraine on June 1, it said they would be armed with “battlefield munitions,” which was widely taken to mean barrage rockets with a range of between 32km and 60km, considering that HIMARS is also capable of launching ballistic projectiles with a range of up to 300km.
“The range does not depend on the system itself, but on the missiles that are used,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a TV interview earlier this month, adding that if the US sends long-range rockets Russia will “draw the appropriate conclusions and use our weapons, which we have enough of, in order to strike at those objects that we have not yet struck.”
They used those short range missiles to kill civilians in Donetsk, ignoring the actual russian army grilling their asses in the meantime. Fucking terrorists. If they recieve long range ones like Tomahawks, you can sure bet anything they will immediately launch them to kill civilians in Moscow.
they will immediately launch them to kill civilians in Moscow.
If that happens Ukraine will be bulldozed in most brutal way possible in a matter of days, Russians will not care for civilians or to limit casualties and collateral damage as much as possible .
Yeah, at that point I would be amazed if Russia didnt just level all of west of the Ukraine after that.
After that, it wont be a deNazification mission, it will be a straight up erasure of the Ukrainian state in totality. We would be talking decapitation missions. Not even dead generals, but targrted politicians and thought leaders.
Doubt it honestly, Russia is not barbaric society that demand 100 deaths for one, unlike nazis or muricans. Seeing the previous war course, they will widen the attack range to more infrastructure in such case. So the civilians will suffer but i very seriously doubt russian army will retaliate with randomly bombing cities.
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I hope the US doesn’t eventually send Tomahawks. You know Ukraine will be cheeky with them.
They used those short range missiles to kill civilians in Donetsk, ignoring the actual russian army grilling their asses in the meantime. Fucking terrorists. If they recieve long range ones like Tomahawks, you can sure bet anything they will immediately launch them to kill civilians in Moscow.
If that happens Ukraine will be bulldozed in most brutal way possible in a matter of days, Russians will not care for civilians or to limit casualties and collateral damage as much as possible .
Yeah, at that point I would be amazed if Russia didnt just level all of west of the Ukraine after that.
After that, it wont be a deNazification mission, it will be a straight up erasure of the Ukrainian state in totality. We would be talking decapitation missions. Not even dead generals, but targrted politicians and thought leaders.
Doubt it honestly, Russia is not barbaric society that demand 100 deaths for one, unlike nazis or muricans. Seeing the previous war course, they will widen the attack range to more infrastructure in such case. So the civilians will suffer but i very seriously doubt russian army will retaliate with randomly bombing cities.
And Breeky with them too