“It said HIMARS. So yes US missiles but operated by Ukranians”
HIMARS driven by Ukrainians to the launch site and set into launch configuration, pretty much everything else....launch time, targeting supplied by the US.
Which is why we are playing a dangerous game by pretending we are not directly involved in this conflict.
No way Ukraine could exactly target the time when trucks rolled over the bridge.
No way Ukraine could exactly target the time when trucks rolled over the bridge.
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Its called UAV - the modern way to spot artillery targets - the UA operates many dozens of commercial drones and over 23 Turkish drones.
Sometimes a desire to believe in our high tech military blinds us to the obvious.
Which would be more likely:
1) Some satellite surveillance system detects a convoy of Russian trucks in Crimea heading for Kherson and somehow figures out what is in the trucks. All that data gets processed in the USA and then sent across the world to some Ukrainian artillery team in minutes.
< 2) A Ukrainian in their house which overlooks the road to the bridge, or is next to where the trucks were loaded relays that data by simply posting on telegram or twitter. Or they post a picture, or they message somebody they know.
You can read and see an endless stream of data about Russian troop movements from Ukrainians in occupied areas. People report when they hear artillery, and what kind it sounds like, and post pictures of armor or trucks passing by.
Why do you think there is video of the bridge being hit taken from a short distance away? Because somebody was watching...
All the Ukies would need is a drone or an observer (partisan, spy, whatever) with a way to communicate.