Russias defense ministry said it has destroyed Iskra plant in Ukraines Zaporozhye tasked with servicing HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS). "A high-precision strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the workshops at the Iskra plant in the city of Zaporozhye, which serviced American HIMARS MLRS," official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov announced on Monday
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Ukraine had destroyed over 400 Russian targets with the HIMARS rocket systems, Chairman of the U.S
Ukraines defense forces are using wooden HIMARS mockups to lure Russian troops into firing long-range cruise missiles to destroy them.Russian troops fired at least 10 Kalibr cruise missiles at decoy HIMARs rocket launchers made of wood and placed at different locations in Southern Ukraine recenty
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
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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
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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