MK254
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Ina mapigo kama ya HIMARS ila mizinga yake haikosei shaba.....
America has sent Ukraine its "most accurate artillery shell", a high-precision GPS-guided munition called Excalibur, Pentagon budget documents have revealed.
Previously undisclosed documents, dated last month, show that the US defence department has had permission from Congress to spend $92 million “for procurement of replacement M982 Excalibur munitions transferred to Ukraine in support of the international effort to counter Russian aggression”.
For months, defence watchers have suspected the US and Canada of supplying significant quantities of the sophisticated weapon, which is capable of hitting targets 25 miles away with an accuracy of around two metres, to Kyiv’s forces.
Precision munitions, such as Excalibur and the long-range Himars missile systems, have sharply changed the nature of the war in Ukraine, allowing Kyiv’s numerically inferior force to choose when and where to counter-attack.
The two advances currently under way - to the east of Kharkiv and in the southern Kherson region - are relatively small scale. Although causing great destruction of Russian forces, the southern push seems to have come at a high cost for Ukraine.
Without the use of Excalibur, first used by US forces in Iraq in 2007, and other precision weapons, it is questionable whether Ukraine would have been able to mount simultaneous operations. They have helped to even out the relative capabilities of the two sides.
MSN
America has sent Ukraine its "most accurate artillery shell", a high-precision GPS-guided munition called Excalibur, Pentagon budget documents have revealed.
Previously undisclosed documents, dated last month, show that the US defence department has had permission from Congress to spend $92 million “for procurement of replacement M982 Excalibur munitions transferred to Ukraine in support of the international effort to counter Russian aggression”.
For months, defence watchers have suspected the US and Canada of supplying significant quantities of the sophisticated weapon, which is capable of hitting targets 25 miles away with an accuracy of around two metres, to Kyiv’s forces.
Precision munitions, such as Excalibur and the long-range Himars missile systems, have sharply changed the nature of the war in Ukraine, allowing Kyiv’s numerically inferior force to choose when and where to counter-attack.
The two advances currently under way - to the east of Kharkiv and in the southern Kherson region - are relatively small scale. Although causing great destruction of Russian forces, the southern push seems to have come at a high cost for Ukraine.
Without the use of Excalibur, first used by US forces in Iraq in 2007, and other precision weapons, it is questionable whether Ukraine would have been able to mount simultaneous operations. They have helped to even out the relative capabilities of the two sides.
MSN
