Ukraine continues to request Western assistance to fend off Russian aggression, and the precise rockets of the U.S.-made HIMARS weapon system are in high demand. Who makes this lethal rocket launcher and why is it so effective?
Artillery has quickly become the most important weapon in Ukraine’s war with Russia.
Ukrainian forces have begun to use newer Western artillery, like the M777 Howitzer, in the battlefield. But a different kind of weapon has had a bigger impact. The American-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, aka HIMARS, has been a major high-tech upgrade for Ukraine’s military.
“The introduction of the HIMARS rocket artillery to Ukraine has been significant,” said George Barros, a geospatial analyst at the Institute for the Study of War. “That has changed the battlefield quite a lot. And it really goes to show that Western aid to Ukraine is not just paper pushing or symbolic.”
Ukrainian forces claimed to have already used the HIMARS to take out ammunition dumps, command posts and other high-value targets. Providing this high-tech system could help Ukraine blunt Russian advances and change the direction of the conflict.
“What the United States needs to do is to have a strategy to bring this war to an early end,” said George Beebe, director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute. “That means not only convincing the Russians that they can’t win on the battlefield but also showing them that should they make concessions at the negotiating table.”
Watch the video above to find out more about how the high-tech, American-made mobile-rocket artillery system known as HIMARS could help Ukrainian forces repel the Russian invasion, and why some fear the potent weapon could lead to further escalation of hostilities between Russia and the West.
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Why Ukraine Wants This High-Tech American Rocket Launcher
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Let RU buy all the Iranian military equipment and maybe a small portion from Afghanistan. Suicide vests. One tailored for Putin.
Mad love for Ukraine God speed!
HiMArs made in Arkansas,🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲…Lockheed Martin U.S.Defense (Private Company)…
beaware of USA that bld he used sadaam against kuwait after he Martyred Sadamm th eKing. yelnsky dont rell on USA ……
Russia invaded Ukraine shooting blind and north Korea and Iran sent drones missiles and troops to Russia to help Putin war .
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Its seem funny to me, because people talking about Russia, that Russia have best rocket artillery & missile turns out that US dominates everytime!. Russia made 3 different models of tanks(T-90, T-90M & T-14) to beat just one type of tank M1 Abrams 😂 thats hilarious!.
They need gatling guns with rader in auto mode, to knock all drones, just like on war ships.
Putler is Guilty!
They gonna drop a nuke very soon
It's important to note ukraine is getting into a huge debt by all the weapons provided by largely the us
Why Ukraine Wants This High-Tech American Rocket Launcher— because they cant win agasint RUSSIA, so they want to cause the most damage to russinas without fight.
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Singapore already has HIMARS. Over a decade ago.
Don’t forget the Russian still have zircon & the bulava. We haven’t seen it yet but don’t force Putin into a corner
If Biden had any brains at all $85 billion worth of weapons in Afghanistan would be in Ukraine without spending another fortune
Perhaps this "especial military operation" could haven avoided if Joe Biden showed strength in supporting Ukraine.
The debacle in Kabul and the statements of Biden that seemed to say that an incursion is OK contributed to Putin's miscalculation. Bullies like Putin understand only one thing, STRENGTH.
A while back 🔥 power to the M777, now big brother is here to support Ukraine and her soldiers mighty Hi-Mass thank you USA, UK, NATO, EU and the West. To all friendlies as well.
George Beebe…you convince Putler (Hitler) he can't win on the battle field, by providing overwhelming force to decimate the Russian forces in Ukraine, not by advancing so slowly that you make people all over the world including in Ukraine think they must negotiate away their lands and peoples freedom to get peace. You let him know that overwhelming force is limited to taking back Ukraine, unless he foolishly thinks of using Nuclear weapons. This also sends a message to China about Taiwan that tells them to leave Taiwan alone, and make peace again with the West. It's Communism that is aggressive and is trying to take over countries for their own imperialism. You get peace through strength, not indecision and tepid underwhelming actions towards evil bullies that only encourages them. Putin just drafted hundreds of thousands of soldiers, because he thinks he will win the war with Ukraine, so your policy of using underwhelming force out of fear of Putin escalating isn't working to show him he can't win. He is escalating, because he see's you are weak, and believes he can win although the cost is now higher.
So the US is too afraid of Putin to risk war with Russia.
Really?
So what the hell was all that posturing and rhetoric throughout the Cold War about?
The USSR lost the Cold War.
Russia is losing the war in Ukraine.
What exactly is it that the US is afraid of in Russia?
For 75years Russian generals have been living high on the hog from funds supposed to be for maintaining a nuke weapons system nobody could ever dare to use.
If Russian tanks weren't fit for purpose due to non existent maintenance, if millions of uniforms required for the partial mobilisation of conscripts in Russia don't exist.
What are the odds that Russian nuclear missile silos are no more than film sets there for the benefit of US spy datelites to photograph. That the nukes themselves have been sitting up on bricks all this time, their valuable components sold off on the black market, steely eyed Russian missilemen, simply ghosts on a bogus wage sheet?
One high precision versus hundred low precision
l/r 300km himars could remove 1 span kerch bridge n rail lines from russia. potus claims it could hit russia/escalate war. simple IT fix – overlay digital map on fire ctl app, if type gps coords in russia, return error msg. I do similar, stops marketers sending junk mail outside their territories.
Great technology
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The western Governments & Economies should be readying all of their factories for war. Because it will just take one little mistake for WORLD WAR III to break out.
All because the psychopathic Russian President Putin's mad idea's and him & his oligarch's have stolen Russia's wealth for their own.
Why the irritating beeping sounds?
American government is provoked Russia by supports Ukraine to be a NATO member and uses Ukraine, NATO and EU fight Russia for itself. American government is provoking China by Taiwan, provoking North Korea by South Korea and Japan. American government uses the war to stop Russia, China and EU because they do not want all those countries growth in economy and technology. American government uses junk dollar (sin money) to destroy other countries if they are not fallow up all orders from American government.
no matter what happens poodin has to go…before anything worth wild happens
By the Lord God they are brilliant
Increasing production is a good thing!
they didnt work when do only 20 percent of time when raining 200 missiles nothing works air radar freaks out kills its own , media doesnt know talking about play war on computers lol stupid , new solution ruskies have same ww 2 BERLIN launch thousands katushka time katushka not accurate but killed 3 million nazis around berlin yes 3 millon dead
electronic magnetic plasma , AURORA new drone drops discs on battle field to lock up old tanks and trucks of ukraine, been move to front looks like flying batman drops fast move fast free fall from high altitude like stuka pilot unnerving , was reported nobody seen one so this war education even for enthusiasts
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So Ukraine goes to America for weapons and Russia goes to Iran for weapons lol.
well u should not tell the fool enemy russians wat the ukrans might be up 2,eh
70% American people agreement to support Ukraine to fire Russia and Putin push them back their country.
When Russia starts losing critical infrastructure within Russia due to lack of people to keep it repaired and their economy goes the way of the dodo due to loss of people and sanction things will change. I hope Russia fully understands that Ukraine wants to be free and will never stop fighting, and the Western free world will never stop supporting them.
I bet at some day Putin will attempt to steal an Himars weapon.
Ukraine should make a whole bunch of cardboard fake missile systems and just put them everywhere