The Pentagon has received $400 million to order more High Mobility Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS). On August 25, William LaPlante, undersecretary of defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, Doug Bush, visited critical manufacturing facilities in Camden, Arkansas responsible for producing HIMARS and GMLRS systems
Russian specialists are carefully studying foreign military equipment such as M777 howitzers and HIMARS multiple rocket launchers captured in Ukraine to order to develop means to ‘suppress them. “Of course, both our science and our industry are dealing with trophy weapons
The latest aid package announced by the U.S
The United States has said that it has not supplied Ukraine with long-range weapons that can reach Saky airfield in Russia-occupied Crimea from Ukraine. "I don't have the answers to the question of what happened in Saky, the only thing I can say is that it was not ATACMS, because we did not provide them to Ukraine,” a high-ranking Pentagon official was quoted as saying by
A Ukrainian AN / MPQ-64 counter-battery radar station supplied by the U.S
Ukrainian experts believe locally-made Grim (Sapsan) heavy missile launchers were used in the attacks on Saky airfield in Crimea, making it the first combat use of these systems. On August 9, Ukraines Air Force said several Russian aircraft were destroyed in the attacks
Russian air defense systems have intercepted 17 HIMARS rockets fired at them by the Ukrainians, its defense ministry has claimed. "17 shells of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system were intercepted in the areas of the cities of Kherson, Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region and Melitopol, Zaporozhye region," spokesman for the ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said at a briefing on Tuesday
Ukraine will receive weapons worth $1 billion from the United States which will include ammunition for HIMARS multiple rocket launcher and NASAMS air defense systems. On Monday, the Pentagon announced the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $1 billion
Russia defense ministry has announced the destruction of an arsenal in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, which contained 45,000 tons of ammunition from NATO countries. "An arsenal near Voznesensk, Mykolaiv region, where 45,000 tons of ammunition recently supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by NATO countries was stored, was destroyed," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing on Sunday
The Russian Army appears to have innovated a means to track and intercept rockets fired by the America-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) in Ukraine.An officer of the anti-aircraft forces from the group "O" ("Brave") of the Russian army claimed how the air defense forces learned to shoot down missiles of the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system using the Buk-M3 air defense system, reports RIA Novosti