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.
My guess is ruzzia will deploy their attack helicopters and CAS aircraft back to ruzzian bases.
This will make it very difficult for the attack helicopters to support ruzzian infantry.
“The White House confirms that the M39 variant of the ATACMS has been provided, but not the 300km range versions.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1714354921925963902