Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley on Wednesday detailed US plans to train Ukrainian forces on the rocket systems the Biden administration has pledged to give Kyiv.
As part of a $700 million weapons package that was announced last week, the US will send Ukraine High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS, that have a range of up to 50 miles. Ukraine is eager to use the weapons and is already asking for more, but Milley said the plan is to train one platoon at a time.
The UK is sending Ukraine US-made M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), which are similar to the HIMARS and also have a range of up to 50 miles. Milley said the British will also be training one platoon at a time on how to use the MLRS.
“It will do no good to just throw this weapon system into the battle. You’ve got to be trained on it to get the maximum effective use out of the weapon as a precision system,” Milley said.
The training is expected to take about three or four weeks, according to Milley. What’s not clear is where the training will take place. US troops have been teaching Ukrainian forces how to use Howitzers and other equipment in Germany and in undisclosed locations elsewhere in Europe.
If the training on the rocket systems works out, the US and its allies are expected to send more. Russia has been clear that it views the West providing Ukraine with such weapons as a major escalation. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow will respond by pushing Ukrainian forces further from the Russian border to protect Russian territory from being in the range of the rockets.
BS.There’s no time to do anything but starting accept defeat in the ukraine (as even NYT is in the process of), the best Nato trained army there was is no more and you’re going to put the next “gamechanger” in the hands of conscripts who would rather surrender if it wasn’t for the Nazi death squads pushing them on?
Ukraine has lost over 100,000 troops so far: 50,127 KIA and 61,574 MIA not counting POWs.
The war will devolve into a pure Russian victory in a short time.
Ukrainian body count is probably nugatory, … from the Neocon POV. The article’s question re the locus for training is a subterfuge. Everyone knows it will be Poland. Which means, should the HIMARS prove significant, a Russian attack on Poland, … which means Washington will acquire a whole nother army of haters (Zbig’s dream), … with even greater popular backing in the US. …We are in WW III, Ukraine just the opening salvo.
It is more and more looking like the game is almost over. Sending some new rockets isn’t going to change things on the ground in this confrontation, execept to determine the size of the blast that will arrive as an answer to a strike from 1 of the new toys.
Then you can relax, comrade.
Russia will destroy the rocket systems before trainees have a chance to use them… Lol…!
Russian forces are continuing to deploy outdated military equipment to Ukraine to replace losses
Russian forces are mining Kherson Oblast with mines from the 1950s to defend against recent Ukrainian counterattacks in northwestern Kherson Oblast.
The Russian forces moved these mines from Russia’s Rostov Oblast to the Kherson area despite the fact the mines were meant to be destroyed.
Some of the mines detonated during the transportation processes and killed Russian sappers from the 49th Combined Arms Army.
This is consistent with previous statements that Russian forces are moving old and obsolete equipment to Ukraine to make up for equipment losses, including deploying T-62 tanks to the Melitopol area and pulling MLRS and 152mm howitzers from storage in Irkutsk, Siberia.
So is the T-34 next??
Way to bring the war to an end, ByeDone!
You KNOW that Ukraine will not win this war; the very notion is ridiculous. Any chance you can send some negotiators? Or don’t you have any hidden in your closet?