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Also noted they can fire from aircraft they have
Nice to way to introduce your longer range Himars if you happen to had been secretly given them
Yup, I don't know why they didn't have the longer-range ones already as the reasoning against it didn't stack up once it was announced that the US has to approve the targets anyway.
If Ukraine really do have access to HARM missiles it will have a significant impact. Russian counterbattery radar and AA sites will be have to be very wary about switching their radar on rather than just operating with relative impunity.Oooof thats going to be another keyboard the US are going to owe putin, hes gonna rage at that.
If they have enough of the good stuff then just about all the occupied lands will be at risk.
If only they had some hope of air superiority, Ukraine could genuinely kick them all out, they would be sitting ducks (just like Iraq war)
Oooof thats going to be another keyboard the US are going to owe putin, hes gonna rage at that.
If they have enough of the good stuff then just about all the occupied lands will be at risk.
If only they had some hope of air superiority, Ukraine could genuinely kick them all out, they would be sitting ducks (just like Iraq war)
But from another certain point of view, it's cowardly and adds risk to the nuclear plant being blown up, there should be no troops or armaments anywhere near the plant itself. It should be a neutral ground.
Indeed. But Russia has consistently shown that it has no respect for any such norms of behaviour.
It's not a game of cricket...
Because if you can do with low tech, why risk high tech falling into enemy hands ?I don't know in general why the sophistication of the weapons given is always slowly incrementing, instead of just giving them everything from the start.
Also use the old crap before it goes too far past its sell by date.Because if you can do with low tech, why risk high tech falling into enemy hands ?
I don't know in general why the sophistication of the weapons given is always slowly incrementing, instead of just giving them everything from the start. I know one element is you need to train troops, but they could have started training troops on HIMARS right at the start for example.
Yeah, as soon as they showed they weren’t going to fold, their government stayed in control and crucially they’ve taken steps to remove as much Russian infiltration in their ranks as possible the quality of the weaponry has stepped up to match.Because most of the difficulty of using advanced weapons is in logistics: supply chains, trained technicians, and organisation of ammo, spares, etc. Take the Abrams tank, for example, not only does it require an enormous amount of support, it's actually too heavy for Ukrainian bridges so you also need to upgrade actual infrastructure to deploy it.
Which is one reason that man portable weapons like Javelins, etc. were a major part of the early and pre-war support effort: they don't have the same need for complex infrastructure, logistics, or training.
Since Ukraine isn't NATO and, frankly, not seen as that reliable or stable an ally, the stuff they were being provided with before the war wasn't ever going to be top tier. You don't want that stuff ending up on the Russian side. So the West wasn't prepared to offer this stuff or even the preparation for this stuff before things escalated this year.