and Ukrainians have rejected those claims.
While Russia says it has destroyed HIMARS in Ukraine, the U.S. That could happen for HIMARS as well, even if it hasn’t quite happened yet. Eventually, Russian tactics adapted and the weapons became less effective. Javelin” have had their moment in the sun as well. Those Bayraktar drones as well as the anti-tank missiles that became known as ”St. HIMARS is not the first “game changer” to reach the battlefield in Ukraine. HIMARS has also been tested in the past as a potential anti-ship system, which could offer some tantalizing options for Ukraine in the battle for control of the Black Sea. The biggest technical leap in recent years has been the development of the precision-guided rockets, which use GPS tracking to hit specific targets at great distances. Previous rocket launcher systems were known for being destructive but also crude and inaccurate. “We have used them before but not in this kind of role, which is what they were really designed for,” Mark Cancian, a retired Marine Corps colonel who is now an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Grid. But they’re ultimately better suited for the current war in Ukraine, where there is no shortage of large and immobile fixed infrastructure to target. military in Afghanistan, Iraq and even in Jordan, where they were used to fire on Islamic State targets over the border in Syria. Essentially a rocket launcher mounted on the back of a truck, the M142 HIMARS is light enough to be transported by cargo plane and its mobility makes it hard for the enemy to take out. The lighter and easier-to-maintain M142 HIMARS was developed in the 1990s and is produced today by Lockheed Martin. caught up with the Soviets with the development in the 1980s of the M270, which was used during the 1991 Gulf War. (Ukraine also has a number of Soviet-era multiple launch rocket systems in its arsenal, both from its prewar stocks and via donations from Poland and the Czech Republic.) The Soviets were pioneers in the use of multiple rocket launchers dating back to World War II, when Katyusha rocket launchers - also known as “Stalin’s Organs” were used with devastating effect against the actual Nazis. There’s some historical irony to the fact these weapons are now making the Russian military’s life miserable as it attempts to “denazify” Ukraine. The HIMARS’ payload is powerful enough to inflict damage on par with aerial bombardment. artillery pieces on the battlefield in Ukraine, has a range of less than 20 miles. By contrast, the M777 howitzer cannon, one of the most advanced U.S. The HIMARS is a particularly sophisticated version, each carrying either one-half dozen guided rockets with a range of around 40 miles, or a single Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), which has a range of almost 200 miles. The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System is more or less what it sounds like: A platform loaded with multiple rockets that can be fired in short succession. How much of a wonder weapon is the HIMARS? And might it really the turn the tide of the war? What is a HIMARS? The arrival of the HIMARS is the first sign the balance in artillery may be shifting in Ukraine’s favor. Since early April, when Russian forces abandoned their ill-fated attempt to take Kyiv in order to focus on the eastern Donbas region, they’ve been making slow but steady progress, in large part because of their overwhelming advantage in heavy artillery. Part of the reason for all the HIMARS enthusiasm is that they’ve provided the first reasons for battlefield optimism for Ukraine and its allies in quite some time. In a recent Washington Post column, defense columnist Max Boot argued that if the Biden administration were serious about shortening the war, it would “send 60 HIMARS to Ukraine.” The system has emerged as something of a litmus test for Western support for Ukraine. has also sent three M270 artillery launchers - an older but compatible model - and Germany has committed several as well. has already sent 12 HIMARS to Ukraine, and Austin announced on Wednesday that four more are on the way. The strike was likely part of preparations for an upcoming offensive to retake the city, which was captured by the Russians in the early days of the war.
In recent days, Ukraine used HIMARS to strike a key bridge used by Russian forces to resupply the occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine.
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