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.

  • HuddaBudda@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      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

  • zelet@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    Anything that makes Russia remove invading forces/equipment out of Ukrainian territory is the right move.