[SpeedyInTexas]

“Ukraine Fires ATACMS Missile at Russian Forces for the First Time”

“U.S. missiles were secretly deployed to Ukraine in recent days”

“Ukraine launched ATACMS missiles at Russian forces on Tuesday, marking the first time that the U.S-provided weapons have been used in the conflict in Ukraine.

A small number of the missiles have been secretly sent to Ukraine in recent days, where they will augment Kyiv’s capability to carry out long-range strikes at Russian forces during an important stage of its counteroffensive, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ukraine has long sought ATACMS, a surface-to-surface missile that can strike well behind Russian lines and that can be fired by the Himars, or High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers, the U.S. has provided the country.

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian military’s communication department said on the Telegram messaging app that it “made well-aimed strikes on enemy airfields and helicopters near the temporarily occupied Luhansk and Berdyansk.”

The ATACMS models that were provided have a range of about 100 miles.

The U.S. decision to send the ATACMS, which stands for the Army Tactical Missile System, has been long in the making. Ukraine repeatedly said the missiles were essential to its war plan, giving it the range it needed to strike targets behind the front lines in Russian-held Ukrainian territory.”

https://archive.ph

[SpeedyInTexas]

ATACMS

“M74 submunition reportedly at Berdyansk airfield. These are delivered by MGM-140 missiles.”

https://twitter.com/COUPSURE/status/1714243723989496311

[ETCM]

M39 ATACMS, with 165 km range, puts all of occupied Ukraine within range, save for parts of Crimea. M39A1, with 300 km range, would cover Crimea too. Both disperse M74 APAM bomblets with the A1 version trading bomblet quantity for range. Obviously, these would be hugely valuable against targets in Belgorod, Taganrog and other bases inside Russia, but Ukraine has agreed not to fire them into Russia. Now, if we could send newer M57 ATACMS for use against harder targets, M26 cluster rockets and GLSDB, Ukraine’s M142 and M270 systems would begin to show their true potential.

Yet again, Russia’s “worlds greatest air defense systems” are shown to fail against real world targets.

[FtrPilot]

That whistling sound you hear is a pair of ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles flying over Russia's "red line" and blowing up a Russian air base.

https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1714337900135911884