VW agree with everything you said. However, while I am torn about it, I would love to send them a few HIMARS with the traditional rockets and few ATACMS given what they Ukrainians did with their twice tested Neptun missiles.
Their ability to leverage limited resources for maximum effect makes me want to give them a few tools with better accuracy characteristics for really prime targets.
I am torn because of the political downsides, as the ATACMS could hit really deep into Russia, Would be clearly supplied by NATO (even 155mm shells have deniability due to local production), and could easily (on accident) hit something clearly civilian or culturally important well outside of the borders of the current conflict. EDIT ADD I am hearing that such concerns - Use deep inside Russia, was part of the reason for the delay in sending planes. Imagine if a transferred Polish Mig-29 crashed into the Kremlin
Last edited by kato13; 04-20-2022 at 10:38 PM.
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