Posted on 08/01/2022 7:44:22 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Russia has said its forces have destroyed two U.S.-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, also known as HIMARS, in Ukraine.
The number adds to the four HIMARS launchers that Russia claimed to have destroyed over a two-week period in July.
A "high-precision" strike in Kharkiv took out the systems and killed 53 people, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, a spokesperson for the Russian defense ministry, said in an announcement on Monday, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
"As a result of a high-precision strike in the city of Kharkiv, on the territory of the Ukrainian Energy Machines plant, two American launchers of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems were destroyed," Konashenkov said. "53 Ukrainian nationalists and foreign mercenaries were also destroyed."
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I don’t trust anything anybody says, including U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley.
> A “high-precision” strike in Kharkiv took out the systems and killed 53 people ... <
Not 52 or 54, but 53. The Russians must have an amazing intelligence-gathering system. Or maybe they’re just making stuff up.
>>>More lies from the Russian propaganda machine via a communist rag. Russian artillery does not have the range to hit a HIMARS tell.<<<
The article says high precision strike. I would assume that would be a missile. Russia has GLONASS, their own version of our GPS.
They weren’t using the “High mobility” part.
One side or the other was going to “destroy” them...
Agree, to which I will add, "I don’t trust anything the Ukrainians say."
Could be totally made up, or could be intelligence intercept of electronic info. We'll never know.
Or...they just intercepted Ukrainian radio and cyber traffic on a report on the strike.
Or of a doctor in the hospital.
Or some E4 on a “secure” app.
“Not 52 or 54, but 53. The Russians must have an amazing intelligence-gathering system. Or maybe they’re just making stuff up.”
“Russian artillery does not have the range to hit a HIMARS tell.”
Kharkiv is near the Russian border.
Russians have always played a mean numbers game.
At the battle of Kursk, Germany lost 1,000 tanks and assault guns, and Russia lost 6,000. That’s called a victory for Russia.
If this war were just Russia against Ukraine, that same arithmetic would apply. But, Ukraine is being supplied by the U.S. and others. For example, the himars are coming from U.S.
I was always surprised.
To get a total such as 53 would generally require more than one intercept, or it would require a high-level intercept or inside source.
At best it is an estimate based on photos, but it is quite likely to be at least partially made up.
Unpossible. Our equipment is immune to damage and there’s simply no way any of it can be destroyed.
I assure you some of them have been destroyed. Don’t listen to the propaganda spread by either side of this mess.
Don’t know why we are sending money or equipment to this quagmire.
Intercepted communications
having worked intel, I was always amazed at all msm reports
They have located targets supported by Western advisors in the past by simply following cell phones
By now I assume foreign mercenaries and advisors have been alerted to not turn on their phones with Euro and US country codes
The US military, which I'm sure can track the HIMARS in Ukraine, says none have been destroyed.
Waiting for Zelenskyy to ask for tactical nukes.
Got the OOF🤣👍
The HIMARS can fire all 6 rockets and be moving to it’s rearm point before A.) The first rocket hits it’s target, and B.) Before Russia can calculate a firing solution for counter battery fire.
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