Biden passed the Armed Forces of the ATCMS M39 rocket: last time they destroyed many Russian helicopters - Forbes

The new military aid package has already been the second party of the Ballistic Missiles M39 (Army Tactical Missile System). The first reporters of Politico reported. The Armed Forces received M39 last fall and quickly released all 20 or so of the Himars wheel or tracked M270, which caused damage to Russian air defense and helicopters. When the rocket falls, it rotates and opens, scattering 950 steel bombs and tungsten on an area of ​​thousands of square meters.

Each of the M74 subbovity has an explosive power of a hand grenade. M39 is a powerful weapon for dispersed purposes. The Armed Forces aimed at valuable long -range air defense systems and fragile helicopters on Russian bases on the front line. The first victims of the Ukrainian strike of ATACMS M39 were two helicopter bases in the occupied territories of the South and East of Ukraine. At least three rockets have struck airfields near Berdyansk and in the Luhansk region.

Thousands of sub -cottages have destroyed or severely damaged 21 helicopters, according to the analysis of the GeoconfirMed satellite images. "This is probably the greatest blow to the Russian Air Force since the beginning of the war," GeoconfirMed analysts commented. The analysis of the Ukrainian analytical group of Fronetelligence Insight converges GEOCONFIRMED ratings. "They are at the heart of their assessment of significant arguments," Frontelligence reported.

The second strike of ATACMS was on October 25 on the Battery of the Russian RSS in Lugansk. Photos and videos recorded the torn parts of the two ATCMS M39 and the effects of the impact: smoke clubs that lifted from the fact that the Russian public were called the C-400 battery. During the years before the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Russian Air Force placed five C-400 batteries in the occupied Crimea with radars. Other C-400 appeared in the occupied areas of Ukraine and nearby.

Last year, more high quality long -range weapons appeared in the forces of defense - and Russian goals became more vulnerable. Oryx estimates that these strokes have destroyed at least six C-400 starting installations and auxiliary equipment of these SPRs, including a command post and radar (equipment for one and a half battery). It is unknown how many more ATCMS beats have spent the Armed Forces after the first two.

Twenty M39 is a little, Ukraine cannot be blamed in the waste of powerful ammunition, and the second party will also be used in the target way, journalists say. "We do not know how many rockets are contained in a new package, but we expect that they should fall into Russian helicopter bases, air defense batteries and other light goals," the publication reads. A new campaign is expected on the deep rear of the Russians - and significant losses. But the campaign, apparently, will be short -term.

As soon as the second batch of M39 is spent, it may take some time before the US is allocated the next. Further funding may require a significant change in US policy. Joe Baiden's Democratic Party tries to resort to a rare legislative maneuver - Discharge Petition. In this way, to vote to the project of assistance to Ukraine for $ 61 billion. Such a petition allows the vote to vote without consideration of commissions. Signatures began to be collected for a petition on Tuesday, March 12.