helicopters at an airport in southern Ukraine (100km from the nearest frontline)
warning no drama, just combat news
Leaked by US officials
When Zelensky met with Biden he apparently promised to finally send ATACMS missiles. They denied it as a policy but the same day 3 different "anonymous sources" leaked it to NBC that they were coming.
another Biden W 
confirmed
Now less than a month later it was confirmed on CNN:
Airport strike
Losses = Reports are it was a mix of K-52s and MI- helicopters
/r/combatfootage gloats
Hilarious reddit jokes
War is officially over now that Ukraine has a couple long range missiles. Even though helicopters and fighter jets have been almost non-existent in this war, offensives are basically impossible now:
STUPID RUSSIANS!! why would you store multiple helicopters at an airport 100km from the frontline instead of in some field?? Bunch of fricking amateurs:
ATACMS cluster munitions
Apparently it was the cluster variant circa 1996 (instead of the single large explosion variant)
Some RU telegram posted pictures of exploded MGM-140 submunition
https://x.com/RALee85/status/1714291525981786265
From wiki:
There is some skepticism but seems to be pretty much confirmed
In closing I love this Marsey, nice work @Igor_Konashenkov
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It's kinda r-slurred they used it after the fail of counteroffensive. Using right now gave Russia Intel about this weapon so next attack using it will be less successful so a random attack on helicopter field when Ukraine don't plant to launch or Russia from that direction is legit low IQ move
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lol whats RU going to do, Not have train stations and logistics hubs? Move all their rear operations into underground bunkers? Move helicopters even further away from the frontline?
I don't get it. What exactly would Ukraine wait for that's 100-300km away from the frontline that HIMARs can't already hit?
That airport 100% already had air defences looking for Storm Shadows…which they also fail to shoot down. if they can't hit a slow moving cruise missile, they probably won't have much success against what amounts to a ballistic missile. Besides they had a full month since ATACMS news got leaked
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Russia going to continue grinding Ukraine.
My point was now this attack has no point and only gave Russian opportunity to prepare better, and yes shadow storm did a lot and that's why we didn't heard about it for like a month now or why we don't hear about regular himars anymore. Those atacms aint as mass produced as regular one so they won't be able to shoot 1000 of those on single logistic point.
So using those now on object that is not important right now gives Ukraine nothing, their plan now is to cross that Kherson river, they won't fight those helicopters from that location, if they shot crimea it would make sense but what they did is gave Russian Intel about ATACMS
Or are you from that crowd that think that using a lot of those won't push Russian to adopt shooting them down ?
Russia also Russia stepped out of agreement about testing nukes and they have now 0 fear of using those since last year west was telling Russia they will give Ukraine ATACMS, Jets and Tank if Russia uses nukes. So what will hold them now back ?
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Lol this was the standard Russian cope line they used all through August, that ukraine has none left, then their Crimean HQ gets hit by 2 of them
Wtf are you talking about there's multiple new videos of HIMARS strikes every week on Twitter?
Again what can Russia do now that they know it's operational? You haven't given me one example that changes anything.
they still need to run logistics, house troops, and run operations in the rear. If they adapt by moving aircraft further away it's still a win for ukraine and regardless aircraft are the least important thing in this war
We were told HIMARS would stop being effective after 6 months when the software updates wirh radar signatures gets widely deployed and that never happened either
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Himars attack stopped hitting important targets they are used now to attack artillery not far away from front. Last big himars attack was in January when they hit a military academy.
You know it's kinda impressive that Crimea HQ is over the attack on submarine. That Crimea HQ was just a symbolic move to get attention back. They even told some admiral died during it for him to spawn in 2 days.
Those building ain't really used during wars. But I guess since you still remember it Ukraine successfully used it symbolical.
It's not Kherson, they have a lot more way to run logistics, but khohols fall in love with himars and they legit believe a longer range himars would have same effect not understanding that Kherson offensive was a failure, goal was never to just capture the city but defeat Russian soldiers that have problems with logistic and not let them live so they latter pawned them during their spring counteroffensive.
My point is khohols used the surprise move very badly even khohols popular bloggers don't talk about atacms and the damage they did minimal with it. They want to cross that Kherson river to show west they still can win so why bomb some far away village if it ain't help them crossing the river and now Russian know khohols have atacms, they know it's cluster atacms, have it's radar signature and etc.
But writing it I remembered this
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/05/politics/russia-jamming-himars-rockets-ukraine/index.html
That village probably didn't had himars countermeasures like Crimea or Donbas
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