The United States has promised to provide 18 additional Himars rocket launchers to Ukraine in the coming months. These long-range devices caused heavy damage to the Russian army and allowed kyiv to take the advantage.
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“The Russians have promised to pay a lot of money to locate these rocket launchers. They are paying $100,000 for just one vehicle”, explains Oleg, a soldier of the 63 brigade of the Ukrainian army. Franceinfo was able to follow this soldier on the battlefield in the Kherson region to witness a Himars rocket launch (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), weapons supplied by the US military. The operation is classified as a defense secret.
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These long-range rocket launchers have been dubbed the “miraculous weapons” by some officers. The United States delivered 16 of these devices last June and promised four more, which earned Joe Biden warm thanks from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Hidden behind a row of trees, the cannon rises to the south and fires. You have to step back very quickly because the lid is rejected. 80 kilometers away, on the Russian side, the target is hit with an accuracy of one to two meters.
“Thanks to the Himars, the front line has clearly progressedsays Oleg. Now the Russians are obliged to set up their shell depots 150 kilometers behind the front. It is much more difficult logistically for them. This reduces the intensity of their shots by ten times.
“Very quickly we were able to measure the effectiveness of these rocket launchers.”
Oleg, soldier of the Ukrainian armyat franceinfo
After their delivery, we had almost a quiet month, without shooting, given the problems it caused them”. The soldier gets out of the car. We will learn the next day that a single shot from these Himars caused hundreds of deaths.
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