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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.

1 posted on 09/15/2022 7:49:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: Red Badger; Travis McGee

Are we stumbling into WWIII?


2 posted on 09/15/2022 7:50:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

MGM-140 ATACMS has a range of 190 miles. The distance to Moscow from Kiev is 460 miles.


4 posted on 09/15/2022 7:55:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“I used to be nothing but a Deplorable Clinger, but I've been promoted to Brigadier Ultra-MAGA”)
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To: MtnClimber

Soros and Brandon want a nuclear war so badly they can taste it.


5 posted on 09/15/2022 7:56:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( We need to “build back better” on the bones and ashes of those forcing us to “Build Back Better.")
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To: MtnClimber

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.


9 posted on 09/15/2022 8:01:33 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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What happened to that big bad Russian attack? Hmm Putin Stooges?


16 posted on 09/15/2022 8:22:29 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: MtnClimber

Vietnam


20 posted on 09/15/2022 8:28:22 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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Russia is an 3rd world nation. Their military is a joke. Putin is out of options and out of time. China is watching as our advanced weapons are devastating them. Can the Americans do the same on the open sea? they are adjusting their plans for Taiwan accordingly. Will Russia survive as an entity? Or will China end up with control of its resources?

Think big. The world as we know it will be totally different in 10 years time.

21 posted on 09/15/2022 8:28:30 AM PDT by montag813
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To: MtnClimber
Not needed because Ukraine is doing so well in the war? lol

We're not giving them to the Ukrainians because they can't be trusted not to attack Russian territory with them, which result in Russia going after NATO command centers and assets in Ukraine.

45 posted on 09/15/2022 9:20:40 AM PDT by Kazan
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MOSCOW WARNS WASHINGTON THAT SUPPLYING UKRAINE WITH LONGER RANGE MISSILES IS A RED LINE WHICH, IF CROSSED, WILL MAKE THE US A DIRECT PARTICIPANT IN THE WAR.

7:54 AM · Sep 15, 2022


66 posted on 09/15/2022 9:53:30 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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Confirmation that the Pentagon slowly pulling back.


107 posted on 09/15/2022 11:42:58 AM PDT by cranked
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The Tornado rocket launchers that Ukraine has captured from the russians have a range of 1000 km. I would not want to be in Rostov right now...


110 posted on 09/15/2022 12:15:06 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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