[ransomnote]

I had forgotten that a few analysts have said for several months now that Russia has been jamming the GPS of HIMARS used by the Ukraine. HIMARS are known to be sensitive to jamming. SO far, the Pentagon had limited the range (programming) of HIMARS given to Ukraine. The CNN article refers to them as medium range. Right now, the Ukraine is begging for permission to use the Long Range capabilities of HIMARS to strike deep within Russia. The Pentagon refuses, stating it would provoke war.

But, the medium range HIMARS are indeed sensitive to jamming and last year in May, CNN noted that they were of decreasing utility in Ukraine.

This current push to allow the Ukraine to use Long Range HIMARS is Public Relations, trying to goad Russia into acting defensively. Biden keeps saying he's just about to permit it in order to make Russia believe they are about to be attacked. Biden's handlers want war, war, war, and this HIMARS talk is meant to keep negotiations off the table.

Note that the CNN article, dated May 2023, said those medium range HIMARS were a 'game changer', and yet the Ukraine has continued to lose the war since then.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"last year’s offensive that allowed Ukraine to take back significant swaths of territory"

All (or at least most) of which has been retaken by the Russians.

The same fate awaits the Kursk intrusion.

[Bikkuri]

Russia’s jamming of US-provided rocket systems complicates Ukraine’s war cover by money laundering effort"

[Buttons12]

Regional wars are good practice for super bowl wars.

[BobL]

“Russia has been thwarting US-made mobile rocket systems in Ukraine more frequently in recent months, using electronic jammers to throw off its GPS guided targeting system”

“This is odd, GPS gets me home from work every day”, so says the Cross-Dresser that is now the US general in charge of operations in Ukraine and who actually believed the Neocons when they insisted that Russia was a Third World country.

[bert]

meanwhile, HIMARS continue to kill Russians and their pitiful weapons

[Revel]

We definitely have given Russia and others the advantage of learning how to defeat American weapons of war. Heaven help us if we are ever in need to fighting a war for our own survival.