To MARS

Ukrainian HIMARS Strike on a large Russian convoy.

Don’t be deceived; those are all hits. The missiles that the HIMARS fires* have a very, very large shrapnel radius. It’s classified but it’s probably around 600M for likely significant damage. Those things seriously fuck shit up in other words. Here is the battle damage assessment. Note that there is no gore, but a lot dead Russian soldiers and/or mercs in the backs of those trucks.

By the way, that is an remarkable feat; those missiles cannot be guided in flight. They can only hit a spot provided by GPS in advance. That means the Ukrainians had to do all of these things very, very quickly:

1) Have recon and drone overwatch in place and ready.
2) Determine the convoy’s current location.
3) Determine its likely continued path.
4) Determine its likely forward speed.
5) Get the launch coordinates dialed in and confirmed.
6) Launch missiles at the spot the convoy would be in the future.

To do all that and hit a convoy in motion it had to have been done in about five minutes. In military terms, that is insanely fast.

*The HIMARS system can fire various munitions. Those were probably M30A2s.

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