Source: https://t.me/DPSUkr/15164

Translation:

🇺🇸🇺🇦The USA will supply ATACMS ballistic missiles to Ukraine on a permanent basis and there will be more missiles

Source: Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba on TV channel 1+1.

  • salton@lemmy.world
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    The ATACMS being at their end of service life means that we would have had to spend far more to have them decomissioned properly than to just ship them to Ukraine. That and these nearly 30 year old missiles seem to still be able to get past Russian latest and greatest AA platforms. These being cluster munitions make them ideal for taking out large groups of aircraft in airfields that the HIMARS couldn’t reach. Storm shadow cruise missiles are fantastic and have a greater range but they’re much more expensive and take more effort to deploy.