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The Russian military has reportedly destroyed a Ukrainian M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) loaded with MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles in the Zaporozhye direction.
The MLRS was first detected by a reconnaissance drone near the settlement of Shevchenkovskoye. Quickly after that it was targeted with a Iskander-M tactical quasi-ballistic missile. It is unclear when exactly the strike took place. However, video footage of the attack surfaced online on June 14.
The United Kingdom, Norway, France and Germany supplied at least 16 American-made MLRS and MARS II -the German-made version of the system- to Kiev forces after the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.
Each MARS II or MLRS launcher can be armed with up to 12 M30/M31 series GMLRS GPS-guided rockets, which have a range of more than 70 kilometers, or two MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles, which have a range from 165 to 300 depending on the version, in two separate pods.
The Iskander-M used to take out the launcher near Shevchenkovskoye has a range of nearly 500 kilometers. It can be armed with different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel–air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions.
The highly-maneuverable missile is guided by a GLONASS-aided inertial navigation system. It can be also equipped with an optical seeker with a digitized scene-mapping area correlator system for terminal guidance.
The Russian military has already destroyed or damaged many of Ukraine’s MLRS and MARS II systems as well as several of around 40 M142 HIMARS -a lighter, wheeled system that fires the same types of projectiles- which were delivered to Ukraine by the United States over the last two years.
This was however the first known time a Ukrainian MLRS loaded with ATACMS missiles was targeted and destroyed by Russian fire.
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last night i went as guest to the holmenkos here in town. his wife efihenya jensova was disappointed because i am not bi. i am homo. so she could only watch us. so she also filmed me and jens. i was the active this time.
usually ur passive? belorusian peasant, go grow vegetables and fertilez them with you, your wife and your stinking bootleg daughter shit?
stinking ukrainazis always talking shit, go the eastern front and die for your fuhrer!!!
no showers left in ukraine. can’t blame the nazis for stinking.
yuri bagofurin seems upset. did your bag break, yuri?
try yelling at your bag ‘ don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining’. like zelensky likes to yell at his generals.
oh my, not a good time to be in the bunker.
i change name to holm after zelensky deport me cuz i spread aids in ukraine
does that make you a holmo?
good, it’s nice to hear that ukraine’s strikes on s300 and s400 in crimea aren’t going unanswered.
ukraine provided clear video evidence. what does this absurd video prove?
exactly right, poor quality, too short to judge if claims are true.
turned the atacms into bakatms in one short flight, eh?
those nato and yankee stuf come in the country by plane? train? truck? so go find the way they come in and destroy them before entering the war zone. russia get some balls !!!!
nice, let’s watch the american and european pig go broke.