Ukraine Striked Russian Trenches With HIMARS?!

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[Yapping_Fox]

HIMARS has anti personnel missiles too, we handed these over a bit ago for this exact purpose. Strikes fear into the enemy and make clearing trenches a cake walk.

[JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

They're using the HIMARS that contain the tungsten balls. Drop one of those in the trench and anyone near it's going to be looking like cheap hamburger

[MrSonofsonof]

Those will be with M301A warheads with all the tungsten fragments. They are really meant for entrenched infantry.

[ianharman]

Sometimes you need to use your best and more expensive weapons on say trenches to confirm assault of priority targets and to minimise own casualties. Also Okay if you have a sufficient Himars stockpile once in a while.

[Scott]

Perhaps this is an indication that “this is the time of maximum effort” and they “have plenty of HIMARS to burn”

[serdorv]

I love this channel, especially compare what really russian and ukrainian channels report and what he says in his videos. That is real fun.

[arturasnesakysiu]

Actually himars had 2 options shooting high value tRgets blowing stuff up like building, or it has shell which goes in air and spray special balls in huge are, it will penetrate tanks, armor flesh killing anybody who is in trench

[briancarey]

There is nothing more effective at taking out a trench system than the good old king of battle. I was part of a 6 battery artillery unit. 6 -105's. 6 105s there would just be holes where the trench used to be.

[agentsmith]

Even a cheap target can become HIMARS-worthy if it's crucial enough, or would cost too many lives to take.

[deathdrone]

Maybe they are used to strike supply points within the trench systems or perhaps troop barracks at night to cause high casualites.

[mikerussell]

The point is to spend money. Lindsey Graham said,
this is about sending the money to US Military manufacturers. The longer this goes on, and the more money is spent, the happier the politicians are. US politicians do not want an handing of this.

[alexbogdan]

May god bless our infantry! Glory to Ukraine!

[pevlez]

That may signal that they are confident on western resolve to resupply the missiles

[yosecretsquirrel]

If you are looking for weaknesses in the Russian lines, its not to hard, just look for Russian troops, you will find it there.

[brianb]

Actually we had a munition that we retired before the HIMARS was delivered and we were still using the m270 mlrs. It was called DPICM. DPICM is specifically designed to clear trenches and tank formations. It got the nickname steel rain in DesertStorm. We still have those munitions but we consider it a war crime now. They are due to be destroyed due to age in the next few years. Hopefully, we just give them to Ukraine and save a few bucks on destruction cost. To be fair, I don't know if it is an actual war crime to use it. It is just what my NCOs told me when I was in the army with MOS 94Y IFTE and I learned to work on the electronics of the m270.

[alexfrancis]

I am betting this guy will do a 180 on all his counter offensive stories by this year end.

[prxZen]

On the Russian side, they've had a lot of time now, to really dig in and established many lines of reinforced and supported defenses. They know the range of HIMARS very well. But, they've also gotten extremely well equipped to deal with the drone issue. So spotting for artillery has gotten a lot more challenging.

I do believe the Ukrainians have received a significan araenal of anti-personnel munitions though, including pods for HIMARS and M270. If they're probing lines and trenches like it seems, it's as good a time as any to test those out. If they work well it has a strong psychological effect that ripples through the trenches (pun intended). And they learn to use them effectively before a big front. Probing is highly educational in more than one way. If the situation allows, combining systems training with fruitful engagement is very favorable. The alternative would be expending those munitions in simulated training scenarios.

War is horrible, destruction of property and life is horrible. But as long as Putin refuses to stop, take his little green men and march them back home to their families - the horrifying, absurd and morbid reality is that the quicker and more efficiently Ukrainian fighters and their supporters can eliminate these threats to and in their homeland, the fewer people will die because of this genocidal imperialist Kremlin agenda. Because the Russians have thoroughly demonstrated that unlike the Ukrainian recapturing their own land - when the Russians take control of a territory, the killing doesn't end there. They keep on massacring the civilian population until there's practically none left alive. _That includes _*_Russian_*_ civilians living in Ukraine, too._

[trepyton]

depending on the location and stoppingpower a trench can be a high value target. but ofc the logic is that the money spent on ammo must be lower than the cost of the target. but again, if the target is capable of making you lose high value equipment it is worth to use expensive munitions.

[mrdan]

Let Russian soldiers live in fear in their trenches thinking Himars are gonna rain down!
Although I'm sure if there was a high value target in the trench then sure target it without prejudice, and without mercy!

[tacticoolrick]

IMHO, as an armchair general, if they're using HIMARS on trenches, these ARE high value targets.

Ukrainian forces knows something nobody else knows yet.