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Half of U.S.-Made HIMARS in Ukraine Destroyed, Russia Says
Newsweek ^ | August 1, 2022 | Khaleda Rahman

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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To: FreshPrince

Of course, FreshPrince of Bel-air, of course:

“While Establishment Media Pushes Delusional Narrative on Ukraine, US Military Brass Now Recognizes The War is Lost”
https://sonar21.com/while-establishment-media-pushes-delusional-narrative-on-ukraine-us-military-brass-now-recognizes-the-war-is-lost/

“Russia Readies Knock Out Blow in Donbass...”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-78WysP5EQ


81 posted on 08/01/2022 9:27:32 AM PDT by cranked
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To: dforest
They can’t be located because they already have been and most are destroyed.

LOL, sure that's why Ruskies can't even post one picture of a destroyed HIMAR, but according to you 'most' have been destroyed.

82 posted on 08/01/2022 9:28:38 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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for the record, I have driven highly modified mlrs platforms
83 posted on 08/01/2022 9:30:40 AM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: mylife

Turkey is expecting payback in the form of support ( or at least not resistance) to its goal of wiping out the border Kurds once and for al,


84 posted on 08/01/2022 9:32:03 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: mylife
last I checked digital is transmitted via rf

Sure, using spread spectrum, frequency agile, multi-hopped, pulsed channels. Nearly impossible to direction find, or even detect them in operation in a noisy radio environment.

85 posted on 08/01/2022 9:32:16 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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lite em up and they light you up.

the pipe works both ways


86 posted on 08/01/2022 9:33:35 AM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: freeandfreezing

ummm no.

I made a living dfing this stuff


87 posted on 08/01/2022 9:34:34 AM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: Navy Patriot

I’m not saying Russia is wrong, but they did make the exact same claim a few weeks ago.


88 posted on 08/01/2022 9:34:35 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: tlozo

It’s smarter to go for the ammo than the launchers

Once the ammo stocks get kalibrated, or otherwise missiled, not much left for show-and-tell


89 posted on 08/01/2022 9:35:23 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: dforest
Why no pictures of HIMARS not destroyed by Russkies?

Posted today (Aug. 1) by Oleksii Reznikov:
90 posted on 08/01/2022 9:35:34 AM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Uncle Lonny

Define “ installation”


91 posted on 08/01/2022 9:36:57 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Brian Griffin
The Russians can bomb holes in all roads from a given area, trapping a MIMARS in an area.

That sounds like a strategy cooked up by a Russian. You know Ukrainians don't know how to drive in fields, or on the dirt, or anything like that. They just stay on the paved roads.


92 posted on 08/01/2022 9:38:03 AM PDT by freeandfreezing (Do I need the sarcasm tag?)
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To: mylife
lite em up and they light you up.

Not so simple with modern NATO hardware. The rockets make turns in flight so there is no way to back calculate the launch point.

93 posted on 08/01/2022 9:39:28 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Brian Griffin
Kharkiv is near the Russian border.

Which is why it is unlikely that there are HIMARS systems in that area. The US does not want HIMARS rockets used on targets inside of Russia, and in the Kharkiv area almost all targets are within howitzer range from the Ukrainian front lines.

There have been no reported deep strikes in the Kharkiv area unlike the HIMARS strikes seen in the Donbass and Kherson areas.

94 posted on 08/01/2022 9:42:36 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: BJ1

“Russia has GLONASS, their own version of our GPS.”

And they probably still have 100+ meter CEP.


95 posted on 08/01/2022 9:43:35 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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To: mylife
I made a living dfing this stuff

Please share what you think you know, as long as it is unclassified. Tell us how you would find such a source.

96 posted on 08/01/2022 9:44:27 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: marktwain

And yet, those HIMARs and the hitting of ammunition supplies has NOT stopped the Russians from advancing and decimating Ukrainian forces with artillery, etc. yeah?

“The ‘Biden’ administration is now changing its official narrative.

It used to be about ousting Putin crushing Russia, now it’s about pretending to be strong while preparing the public opinion for the inevitable defeat of not so much the Ukraine proper (that war was lost in the first week of the SMO!), but the defeat of the USA and NATO in this conflict.”

http://thesaker.is/brandon-shifts-the-narrative-banderastan/


97 posted on 08/01/2022 9:53:12 AM PDT by cranked
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To: freeandfreezing

you can intercept telemetry, it aint new


98 posted on 08/01/2022 10:01:17 AM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: Jeff Chandler; Brian Griffin
The Allies rebuilt a lot of Shermans, whereas the Krauts had logistical problems due to Allied bombing of their factories, which hampered maintenance and repair of their Panzers.

The German tanks were built like modern German cars. They weren't serviceable in the field. The Germans sent damaged tanks back to the factory to get rebuilt. The US wasn't shipping Shermans back across the Atlantic to the US to to get rebuilt.

99 posted on 08/01/2022 10:02:58 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: freeandfreezing

you’ll never know. this stuff is top secret, but not unknown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferometry


100 posted on 08/01/2022 10:05:59 AM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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