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Some weapons platforms have migrated to Ukraine under the radar, as it were, most notably the AGM-88 HARM anti-radiation missiles, which the Pentagon was compelled to admit sending to Ukraine only ...
The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS / ˈ h aɪ m ɑːr z /) is a light multiple rocket launcher developed in the late 1990s for the United States Army and mounted on a standard U.S. Army Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) M1140 truck frame.
A spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry said the strike was likely carried out using a HIMARS rocket system.
Russia's defence ministry on Sunday said Russian air defences had intercepted five U.S.-made HIMARS shells, an air-launched JDAM bomb and 37 Ukrainian drones over Ukrainian territory in last 24 hours.
What the U.S. government calls "nonstandard ammunition" that can be fired from Ukrainian weapons such as 122 mm, 152 mm artillery shells, 120 mm mortar rounds and other smalls weapons. [16] Ukraine claims that it is firing 6,000 projectiles daily in fighting. [17] This compares to Russia firing an estimated 70,000 projectiles. [18]
In the morning, the Russian military launched a massive missile strike on Ukraine. [ 4 ] According to the Ukrainian Air Force , the strike used 63 Shahed attack drones (55 of them were shot down), 12 Iskander-M ballistic missiles , 40 Kh-101 / Kh-555 cruise missiles (35 were shot down), 5 Kh-22 cruise missiles, 7 Kinzhal missiles , 2 Kh-59 ...
The bad news: unlike HIMARS already sent to Ukraine, which were drawn from existing U.S. military stocks, the 18 HIMARS vehicles are being ordered directly from the manufacturer, Lockheed Martin.
[a] Russia called the incident a terrorist attack, and said its 9 March missile strikes on Ukraine were retaliation. Ukraine's government denied involvement; it said the incident could have been a false-flag attack by Russia to justify its ongoing war against Ukraine, or else an attack by anti-government partisans from within Russia.