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  1. 7 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    I still can’t understand why we aren’t providing ATACMS unless some of the reports I read are accurate, that we don’t have enough to give away.  I understand the original excuse of distance and non-escalation but shit man, smoke’em if you got’em.  

     

    6 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

    They are old, no longer in production, and kept alive by expensive modernization for existing inventory. The replacement, the Precision Strike Missile, is just now entering service. I suspect our reluctance to provide it stems partly from lack of ability to replace at scale (yet), partly due to lack of available modernized missiles, partly due to the cost of missile relative to something like a GMLRS rocket (ATACMS is ~8x-10x more expensive), and maybe partly a concern for how effective (or lack there of) they would be. I'm sure we also have concerns about how they would be used, but I wouldn't be surprised if that is just an easy excuse to hide the real reasons. 

     

    But we can sell them to Morocco?

     

    https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/04/us-approves-524-million-himars-artillery-sale-morocco

     

    This is Bullshit. The white house is a bunch of self-deterring pussies.

  2. 18 minutes ago, MadBurgerMaker said:

    One of their planes, I want to say the Backfire (or maybe the Foxbat?), uses some sort of liquid (not the fuel, something else) that ended up being close enough to booze that the base personnel would buy it from the air/ground crews, resulting in shortages.  I wish I could remember details.  

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Confused Rooster Teeth GIF by Achievement Hunter

    They are good out to just over a mile.  You can't vary the propellant on their ammo and they only go up to 18° so it seems like targeting would be an issue and that would be kind of dicey getting those things within Javelin range.

    But it's Russia, they are hurting for transport, and some general could easily say "they are guns on a mobile platform"

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  4. 2 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

    T-55s are better than nothing, but not much.  They'll be used against infantry and bunkers, where HE rounds from their guns will be somewhat effective.  They're also somewhat effective against trucks and light armored vehicles, but most of the light armor Ukraine has is armed with main guns that will easily penetrate the T-55 armor.  ATGMs won't  have any problem with penetration, either.  They are grapes waiting to be squished.

     

    I've read some guesses that they'll be used for indirect fire.

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