Ukraine continues to request Western assistance to fend off Russian aggression, and the precise rockets of the U.S.-made HIMARS weapon system are in high demand. Who makes this lethal rocket launcher and why is it so effective?
Artillery has quickly become the most important weapon in Ukraine’s war with Russia.
Ukrainian forces have begun to use newer Western artillery, like the M777 Howitzer, in the battlefield. But a different kind of weapon has had a bigger impact. The American-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, aka HIMARS, has been a major high-tech upgrade for Ukraine’s military.
“The introduction of the HIMARS rocket artillery to Ukraine has been significant,” said George Barros, a geospatial analyst at the Institute for the Study of War. “That has changed the battlefield quite a lot. And it really goes to show that Western aid to Ukraine is not just paper pushing or symbolic.”
Ukrainian forces claimed to have already used the HIMARS to take out ammunition dumps, command posts and other high-value targets. Providing this high-tech system could help Ukraine blunt Russian advances and change the direction of the conflict.
“What the United States needs to do is to have a strategy to bring this war to an early end,” said George Beebe, director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute. “That means not only convincing the Russians that they can’t win on the battlefield but also showing them that should they make concessions at the negotiating table.”
Watch the video above to find out more about how the high-tech, American-made mobile-rocket artillery system known as HIMARS could help Ukrainian forces repel the Russian invasion, and why some fear the potent weapon could lead to further escalation of hostilities between Russia and the West.
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Why Ukraine Wants This High-Tech American Rocket Launcher
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By the way Stalin called artillery God of War . Do your research you lying leftist woke cancel culture self hating so called investigative newscaster. You people are just pathetic and sad human beings. I can’t believe I used to be left. Well maybe because at that time left stood for what left used to mean. Now left is new ideology similar to isis.
I'm afraid these will lead to wider war; Putin doesn't want to just win in Ukraine, he wants to win the Final battle, Armageddon. He has summoned Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea beside China. And he as well as his close men have oftentimes stressed the use of nuclear weapons as the Judgement Day.
Zone fifteen ur wasting ur time ur not good goals fighter one cities insides u means ur naiborhood hood now I'll make u to end that or els ur wasting ur times
So that Ukraine can resell it at a higher price.
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Biden is selling America to Europeans billionaires
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Some Ukraine will sell to Russians
Give Ukraine what they need! They HIMARS have been awesome!
Putin is not rational he will never give in to the United States’ demands. He will undoubtedly resort to using nuclear weapons. He’s a narcissistic power-hungry sociopath that needs to be taken down by any means necessary including his generals and all of his military top brass.
What do they mean when they said that they didn't wanted the Russians to escalate the War? Isn't the war already escalating? By what degree of escalation do this experts means?
UKRAINE NEED MORE HIMARS AND TANKS, FIGHTING VEHICLES WITH SENSORS NIGHT CAPABILITY, AIR DEFENSE, HELICOPTERS, JETS, THIS FIGHT COULD BE OVER IN 2 MONTHS
What a stupid title.
Blow the Bolsheviks out of Ukraine. Give Ukraine all the Himars they need.
Zelensky move over. Take a back seat. Weapons earmarked for Ukraine will be diverted to Taiwan. Superwoman Tsai will need billions of $ in military aid.
Japan and S Korea are under the watchful eyes of Supreme Leader Kim.
probably with american defense industry they charge way too much for everything .. they overcharge cause the military will pay for it.. look at ULA vs space x
Tanks – the Ukraine needs at least two divisions
modern tanks not Russian relics.
If Usa and Europe give weapon faster, not die so many children in Ukraine…
Ukraine has no chance against Russia! they are clearly losing ground to Russia. why are we still supporting this corrupt country when we are facing so many problems here at home. this is insane! Biden administration has got to go!
Good for Ukraine. I hope one day Palestine is one day armed like this.
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Dear Santa – I want a HIMARS system for Christmas so I can clear traffic jams with ease. This is gonna shave at least 30 mins off my commute.
It s very good that theUSA is providing Ukraïne with hightech weapons,so that Russia. Is not succeeding in takng over Ukraïne.If Russia succeed n ts attemp to take a smaller country by force,all other small countries,situated close to Russia wil be a risk.
iTS A DRAW IN CHESS A STALEMATE, RUSSIA CANNOT MOVE ANYMORE BEcause of long range artillery rockets, Ukraine cannot attacked Mainland Russia because USA wont allow it in exchange of logistic support to Them its a draw. Both of them Bankrupt so is better to go back to the table. But UKraine wanted to recover Crimea illegally grabbed by Russia so it could be hard for peace to prosper for now. It could be one of them will die to stop this war it either Mr. X or Mr. Y its only one bullet needed to save millions of lives world wide.
Why not exchange of places as solution to conflict, for those Russian or Ukraine wanted to join Russia or Ukraine should leave Russia or Ukraine you cannot carry or stay in the soil that you wanted to live in . Russia and Ukraine is very large land area with massive natural resources in Europe with few people. Other countries in SEA is over population with limited land and resources to live. too much greed kills.
So the Russians are allowed to shoot other countries from their occupied territories or from Russia, but not the other way around. And the West gives the Russians what they want. Threatening with NUKES deters the West and the blackmail policy works in favor of the Russians again. Shoot the bloody Russian cities so that the people revolt I think a majority don't want this war. Shoot darn missiles at Russian cities.
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Promotion for american himars all rocket launcher are very effective war armaments
Russia does not feel pain, its people were living in slavery for centuries keeping their belief in the greatness of their empire. Russians will fight until they wipe out Ukraine or until they destroy themselves.
The Bakhmut-Seversk line is making its way bit by bit, more on the southern side. I don't see any way for the Ukrainians to hold that line. They can only postpone the inevitable, with additional sacrifices. Soledar is half occupied, the Wagners from the east have already entered Bahmut. It seems to me that Seversk will have a role similar to Zalatoye. But we'll see…
As for Zaporozhye, I think it will go later. When, I have no idea. I think that Slavyansk and Kramatorsk will be solved first. A wide front from the Dnieper to Volnovakha must be activated for Zaporozhye, and I think that the front on the other side of the Dnieper and the approach to Zaporozhye via Nikopol on the other side of the river should also be activated. But for that, a large number of forces from the other side of the Dnieper should be secured, because the left flank will be extremely vulnerable. Nikopol is also a significant city and probably well fortified by the Ukrainians by now. Tonight, the Russians shelled Nikopolj and Marganjec the hardest so far. Eventually, the offensive from the western side of the Dnieper could be supported by some kind of landing across the Dnieper, right somewhere in that area around Nikopol. A large army is needed for all that. That's why I think that until Donbas is resolved, there is no further on other fronts.
However, as you can see, the Russians are not going around, but in front. To the strongholds. To the city. Lepo Frunze noticed that the center of gravity is in the southern part. Northern has obstruction attacks to keep forces pinned to him.
As the situation unfolds, the North can comfortably stand still. To not move. When they liberate Soledar and cut the Artyomovsk-Seversk communication, Seversk will experience the fate of Zalatny and the entire Lisica ridge.
As they occupy the villages south of Arjomovsko, they also raise the old Ukro lines. Their flank is always supported by the old line which they raised in the previous advance.
Thus, when they break out at Djeržinsk, the left flank will be supported on the old line in front of Gorlovka. The northern flank is again on S. Donac.
What caused this change in tactics? Well, maybe the fact that the Ukris defended themselves convulsively in the strongholds that were in horseshoes. They left them only when they really couldn't defend them anymore.
In this way, when you conquer the main stronghold, the ones next to the smaller ones retreat by themselves. Example of Vugledarska TE. After its fall, the Russians reached Kodema relatively quickly and occupied a good amount of territory, the possession of which had previously been fought for much longer. TE caused the fall of Novolugansk, Semigorje, Gladosova and other smaller strongholds with much less fighting than before.
It may be that the Russians have judged that it is better to hit them in the head now, than to fight almost identical battles in the surrounding smaller strongholds. Honestly, these direct attacks on Soledar and Artyomovsk are a surprise to me.
I think starlink satelite taht Elon spreaded out above Ukraine equipped with Air Force GPS system, now US have ability to watch activity across war zone. Then HIMARS send to destroy Russian strategic targets
All the East of "ukraine" is Russia (Treaty of Pereiaslav 1654, Treaty of Eternal Peace 1686) from 1654 Russians talk about the Tsar of All the Russias which included the Kievan Rus. The entire South was land occupied by the Ottoman Empire conquered by Russia in the 1770s (the conquests of Prince Potemkin during the reign of Catherine the Great) the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca 1774, all the land along the Black Sea littoral became part of the Empire's Novaya Rossya (New Russia) and settled by Russians. Russians built the cities of Sebastopol, Odessa, Marioupol, Melitopol, Kherson, Dnipro etc. This is all Russia for 300 years the USA didnt even exist yet, France did not have its modern form and so on. Putin is perfectly rational in wanting these back in the fold of Russia. Unfortunately, westerners are amnesic analphabets that have no concept or respect for history. Keep whining you mongers. Since the amerikan backed coup of 2104 and amerikan puppet zelenski put in place there has been a concerted effort to squash Russian culture in "ukraine" (keep in mind the East and South has a large population of ethnic Russians who look East. West of the Dnieper are more Polish Lithiuanians (the ones that sided with the nazis during WWII to fight the Russians)). Under the puppet zelenski the Russians in the East have been bombed and attacked in pogroms by the "ukraininan" army and prevented from teaching Russian to their kids in school, just general repession of their natural Russian culture. There are historical and contemporary realities that made it necessary for Russia to act now because the governement in Kiev chose to ignore the Minsk Accords of 2014. You cannot just believe the diseased amerikan-influenced media and the unanalytical knee-jerk moralizing of the press. Thanks to the aid from the amerikans and its european vassals to "ukraine" there has been more death and collatoral damage than was needed for Russia to recover its territory. If you want to point fingers at why this became so brutal just look the amerikans and its European vassals. This is their specialty.
It’s no longer David fighting Goliath.
This time Russia can realize that war is inevitable.it’s no longer children the Russian are fighting.
it looks like not enough pain for Russia was introduced at this moment.
Beeby sounds like on a russian payroll 😀
Her information must be from other YouTubers. haha
Ukraine needs to join NATO
the himars system are so advanced that it can smell from 70 miles off weather you are chinese or russian