Posted on 09/15/2022 7:49:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The U.S. will not be providing Ukraine with long-range missiles amid Russia's invasion, with the Pentagon believing the precision-guided missile systems already provided are "the most relevant munitions for the current fight."
Speaking to reporters Wednesday after President Joe Biden announced an additional $3 billion in military aid to Ukraine, Defense Under Secretary Colin Kahl said long-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) munitions, which are capable of hitting targets at a distance of more than 280 kilometers, are not currently needed.
Since June, the U.S. has provided 16 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), which have played a vital part in Ukraine's ability to fight off the Russian invasion. Currently, Ukraine fires Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) from HIMARS, which have successfully targeted key Russian military targets such as command posts and ammunition depots.
Ukraine has also called for further support by way of potentially hundreds more HIMARS systems, which can also be used to fire ATACMS munitions, that the U.S. has so far not agreed to.
Kahl said during Wednesday's press conference that the GMLRS provided by the U.S., which have a range of around 70 to 80 kilometers, are still the best form of attack for Ukraine, rather than the longer-ranged ATACMS.
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The MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) is a surface-to-surface missile (SSM) manufactured by the U.S. defense company Lockheed Martin. It has a range of up to 190 miles (300 km),[7] with solid propellant, and is 13 feet (4.0 m) high and 24 inches (610 mm) in diameter.
The ATACMS can be fired from the tracked M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), and the wheeled M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). An ATACMS launch container has a lid patterned with six circles like a standard MLRS rocket lid, but contains only one missile[1] – the identical pattern makes it more challenging for espionage to single it out as a high-value target.
Are we stumbling into WWIII?
Only if Putin is far stupider than he looks.
MGM-140 ATACMS has a range of 190 miles. The distance to Moscow from Kiev is 460 miles.
Soros and Brandon want a nuclear war so badly they can taste it.
The ATACMS missile pod is made to look just like the GLMRS pod (that we have already sent to Ukraine). Russia has already said that it is a “trip wire” if we send over the longer range ATACMS system.
Exactly. They think they can build their One World Government out of the rubble.
Jumping in head first..........................
Our insane Pentagon has just blinked, and appropriately so. My guess is that Russia effectively communicated what may well be their response, and that is that these missiles could elicit a tactical nuclear response from Russia, then what?
Are we expected to give Ukraine effective control over all of our strategic nuclear forces?
No thanks.
There are better communications than in World Wars I and II.
It is hard to see what any combatant would gain from pushing the conflict outside of Ukraine/Russia.
Both Ukraine and Russia have been careful, so far, to refrain from pushing the conflict outside Ukraine and the border of Russia with Ukraine.
China sees an example of how attempting to regain territory, long independent, can spiral into severe, unwanted, consequences.
It is the opposite of how Hitler did not get any push-back after gobbling up several states.
In this case, the push-back from Ukraine was surprising, and surprisingly effective.
Well, “we” won’t send ATACMS Romania will. ;)
And what “trip wire”? They’ll start attacking civilians? Act more outrageous?
Their Gulag is dying. They cannot conquer and soon will not be able to hold their ‘republics’. The fake, cobbled together Federation-at-Gunpoint is done. They’re not even a real country. The Kiev Rus are the real Russians. This is why they’re attacking Ukraine. Identity crisis of a dying atheist empire.
What world do you live in? LOL
Not in the warped world were people actually think biden wants a nuclear war thats for sure...
How a leftist like you manages to stay here without a zot is amazing.
You just stood up for Biden. I don’t think the current US regime has any problem using tactical nukes as long as they can lay the blame at the feet of another.
Setting people up is what they do.
“It is hard to see what any combatant would gain from pushing the conflict outside of Ukraine/Russia.”
This isn’t about combatants. This is about the elites who run the world’s politics. They want you dead. You are a resource hog in their world.
What happened to that big bad Russian attack? Hmm Putin Stooges?
There is ongoing resistance to those "elites". They are losing power and influence.
It may be they are becoming desperate.
That may make them more dangerous, but their major power is influence through control of information flow.
This isn’t about combatants. This is about the elites who run the world’s politics. They want you dead. You are a resource hog in their world.That's paranoid. How about you see a psychiatrist for that PutinToady instead of making the forum look crazy?
What is the point of tactical nukes when they render the territory uninhabitable for years and years? And would likely contaminate neighboring NATO countries. Does not make sense by Putts to use.
Vietnam
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