High Mobility Artillery Rocket System can hit Russian targets up to 50 miles (80km) away, helping to ‘even the playing field’
Joe Biden has announced the US will send advanced missile systems to
The Himars that Washington is providing to Ukraine will have a range of about 50 miles , a US official told reporters.Himars units carry one preloaded pod of six 227mm guided missiles , or one large pod loaded with an Army Tactical Missile System tactical missile. The US will not supply Ukraine with the ATACMS, which has a range of 300km.
At roughly 80km it generally puts Himars out of range of Russia’s own artillery, while placing the Russian batteries at risk.Photograph: Toms Kalniņš/EPA But others say Himars will not suddenly turn the tables. “The Himars would even the playing field,” a senior US defence official said.The US president wrote in the New York Times that the advanced rockets will enable the Ukrainians “to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine”.“We are not going to send to Ukraine rocket systems that can strike into Russia,” Biden said.
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