HIMARS multiple-launch missile systems have largely helped Ukraine change the course of the war, and the extreme mobility of American systems is one of the most important advantages of the system.

HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) is a self-propelled wheeled system of salvo fire of artillery rockets, guided projectiles, which in the configuration received by the Ukrainians can hit up to 70 km.

The very high mobility of the system allows Ukrainians to use tactics shoot and dashthat is, you fire quickly and leave the scene long before the enemy can return fire on the position you started from.

In addition, the simplicity of preparing and arming the system gives the Ukrainians the advantage that they can attack at any time and from any place.

So, in recent days, images of HIMARS launchers have appeared on social networks, which practically stopped in the middle of the road, and after the Ukrainian military stopped the traffic, they fired several volleys.

Even “Pravda” praised the HIMARS systems

Russian forces have great difficulty detecting and counterattacking Ukrainian-obtained American launchers due to their high mobility and the Russian military’s own problems with battlefield surveillance drones.

Although in the first weeks after these systems were delivered by the Ukrainians to the battlefield, Moscow announced almost daily that it had destroyed a certain number of HIMARS, such claims appear to have subsided after the American press wrote in late August, citing Washington sources familiar with The fact is that the Russian forces fired missiles worth millions of dollars on Ukrainian-made wooden launchers as a decoy.

Perhaps few things are more indicative of the success of HIMARS systems against an invasion force than the fact that even the Russian website Pravda recently noted that they are “envious,” but Russia will soon have systems comparable in effectiveness.

“Pravda” quoted in this regard “military expert” and editor of “Arsenal Batkivshchyna” magazine Oleksiy Lenkov, who stated in an interview at the end of last month that the Russian Tornado-S air defense systems are “a kind of analogue” of the American ones. made HIMARS and will “soon become the main type of weapon” that the Russian armed forces will use for missile strikes.

He also noted the importance of increasing the survivability of Russian systems, “although by this indicator we are ahead of similar systems of NATO countries.”

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