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The US-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) made a significant impact on Ukraine’s front lines. Photo/Illustration
The US has provided Ukrainian forces with eight of 142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS , which allows launching a number of precision-guided rockets. The US has also pledged to send an additional 4 HIMARS.
A senior US Department of Defense official said at a briefing at the Pentagon on Friday that weapons systems have a significant impact on what happens, on the front lines.
The weapons can hit targets at a greater range than the M777 Howitzer, which the US also provided Ukraine. Since their dispatch, Kiev claims to have carried out a number of successful attacks against Russian forces using the system.
The unnamed Pentagon official said that Ukrainian forces spend a lot of time striking targets such as munitions, supplies, other logistical supplies, command and control which has a direct impact on the ability to conduct operations on the front line.
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“Even though they didn’t shoot HIMARS on the front lines, they had a very, very significant effect,” the official added, according to the US Department of Defense. NewsweekSaturday (16/7/2022).
Newsweek has contacted the Russian Ministry of Defense for comment on this claim.
This week, Ukraine said it had killed another Russian commander after a HIMARS missile hit a Russian command and control center in the southern Kherson region.
On Thursday, Kiev said HIMARS was used to destroy a second Russian ammunition depot in the city of Nova Kakhovka, in the same region.
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