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Half of U.S.-Made HIMARS in Ukraine Destroyed, Russia Says
Newsweek ^ | August 1, 2022 | Khaleda Rahman

Posted on 08/01/2022 7:44:22 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

Russia has said its forces have destroyed two U.S.-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, also known as HIMARS, in Ukraine.

The number adds to the four HIMARS launchers that Russia claimed to have destroyed over a two-week period in July.

A "high-precision" strike in Kharkiv took out the systems and killed 53 people, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesperson for the Russian defense ministry, said in an announcement on Monday, according to Russian state news agency TASS.

"As a result of a high-precision strike in the city of Kharkiv, on the territory of the Ukrainian Energy Machines plant, two American launchers of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems were destroyed," Konashenkov said. "53 Ukrainian nationalists and foreign mercenaries were also destroyed."

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To: Paleo Conservative

I don’t trust anything anybody says, including U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley.


21 posted on 08/01/2022 8:01:51 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Navy Patriot

> A “high-precision” strike in Kharkiv took out the systems and killed 53 people ... <

Not 52 or 54, but 53. The Russians must have an amazing intelligence-gathering system. Or maybe they’re just making stuff up.


22 posted on 08/01/2022 8:01:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: PIF

>>>More lies from the Russian propaganda machine via a communist rag. Russian artillery does not have the range to hit a HIMARS tell.<<<

The article says high precision strike. I would assume that would be a missile. Russia has GLONASS, their own version of our GPS.


23 posted on 08/01/2022 8:02:21 AM PDT by BJ1
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To: Navy Patriot

They weren’t using the “High mobility” part.


24 posted on 08/01/2022 8:02:22 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.)
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To: Navy Patriot

One side or the other was going to “destroy” them...


25 posted on 08/01/2022 8:02:46 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Paleo Conservative
I don’t trust anything the Russians say.

Agree, to which I will add, "I don’t trust anything the Ukrainians say."

26 posted on 08/01/2022 8:03:46 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Leaning Right
The Russians must have an amazing intelligence-gathering system.

Could be totally made up, or could be intelligence intercept of electronic info. We'll never know.

27 posted on 08/01/2022 8:04:41 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Leaning Right

Or...they just intercepted Ukrainian radio and cyber traffic on a report on the strike.

Or of a doctor in the hospital.

Or some E4 on a “secure” app.

“Not 52 or 54, but 53. The Russians must have an amazing intelligence-gathering system. Or maybe they’re just making stuff up.”


28 posted on 08/01/2022 8:05:39 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: PIF

“Russian artillery does not have the range to hit a HIMARS tell.”

Kharkiv is near the Russian border.


29 posted on 08/01/2022 8:05:46 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Russians have always played a mean numbers game.

At the battle of Kursk, Germany lost 1,000 tanks and assault guns, and Russia lost 6,000. That’s called a victory for Russia.

If this war were just Russia against Ukraine, that same arithmetic would apply. But, Ukraine is being supplied by the U.S. and others. For example, the himars are coming from U.S.


30 posted on 08/01/2022 8:09:04 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: marktwain
Back in 1965 and 1966 I used to read Newsweak to find out what I had been been doing.

I was always surprised.

31 posted on 08/01/2022 8:09:10 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: 2banana

To get a total such as 53 would generally require more than one intercept, or it would require a high-level intercept or inside source.

At best it is an estimate based on photos, but it is quite likely to be at least partially made up.


32 posted on 08/01/2022 8:10:47 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Navy Patriot

Unpossible. Our equipment is immune to damage and there’s simply no way any of it can be destroyed.

I assure you some of them have been destroyed. Don’t listen to the propaganda spread by either side of this mess.

Don’t know why we are sending money or equipment to this quagmire.


33 posted on 08/01/2022 8:11:32 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: Brian Griffin

Intercepted communications


34 posted on 08/01/2022 8:11:49 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Navy Patriot

having worked intel, I was always amazed at all msm reports


35 posted on 08/01/2022 8:13:41 AM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: DEPcom

They have located targets supported by Western advisors in the past by simply following cell phones

By now I assume foreign mercenaries and advisors have been alerted to not turn on their phones with Euro and US country codes


36 posted on 08/01/2022 8:15:18 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Agree, to which I will add, "I don’t trust anything the Ukrainians say."

The US military, which I'm sure can track the HIMARS in Ukraine, says none have been destroyed.

37 posted on 08/01/2022 8:15:51 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: Navy Patriot

Waiting for Zelenskyy to ask for tactical nukes.


38 posted on 08/01/2022 8:17:15 AM PDT by CodeJockey (I use the pronoun "it" so I don't offend the left.)
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To: mylife

Got the OOF🤣👍


39 posted on 08/01/2022 8:17:15 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Zenjitsuman

The HIMARS can fire all 6 rockets and be moving to it’s rearm point before A.) The first rocket hits it’s target, and B.) Before Russia can calculate a firing solution for counter battery fire.


40 posted on 08/01/2022 8:18:22 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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