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To: EEGator

“I have a question with regards to cluster munitions.
Don’t they have to be dropped via aircraft?
How’s this going to work?”

So....
I think the plan is to use the ATCAMS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-140_ATACMS
with Cluster munitions, for entrenched positions.

Me thinks this is an alternative to giving the Ukrainians F-16 and F/A-18 aircraft in large enough numbers to destabilize the Russians. Honestly, if they took all of the aircraft that were in storage, put decent pilots in them, they would control the skies not only over Ukraine but likely Russia. Since most of the Russian military is actually in Ukraine, the Russians could potentially collapse entirely. In this scenario, this ‘could’ potentially degenerate into a thermonuclear exchange.

Giving the Ukrainian rockets to retake Ukraine is a much more controllable outcome then giving them an entire air force and expecting them to stop at the border.....


42 posted on 07/10/2023 9:35:37 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: Pete Dovgan
put decent pilots in them,

American? Ukes would be murdered in those planes for no gain, not that they have managed it anyway.

57 posted on 07/10/2023 10:37:56 AM PDT by xone ( )
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