Why America broke down its weaponry provision to Ukraine

What has happened to America? America has broken down. We see neither F16 fighters nor missiles. We haven’t even seen American Abrams on the battlefield so far. Like F16 fighters, the ATACMS most likely became hostages to some kind of agreements. In this sense America broke down due to various reasons: agreements, delays, expediency.

Military expert Roman Svitan thinks there may be different points.

This is geopolitics. We are used indirectly. As they say, ‘love them and leave them.” And this is evident. They keep promising to give us fighters, but they don’t really do it.

Lend-Lease has come and gone.

There are a lot of questions for the Biden-Obama-Clinton administration. Surely it will be American society who will ask these questions.

If these missiles appeared, they would solve some our problems, but certainly would not replace aircraft.

These are two big differences. One ATACMS is a warhead of 225 kilograms, whereas one bomb weighs half a ton, and there are 9 suspension points on the plane of half a ton each.

The difference is in a combat load and the ability to perform combat missions. The aircraft can perform basic missions at a combat radius of 500 to 1,000 kilometers, depending on external fuel tanks, and an ATACMS missile has a range of up to 300 kilometers and its warhead is much smaller. Besides, to use the ATACMS is very expensive. Its price is 100 times higher than the price of an air bomb.

Therefore, we can use at least a hundred air bombs instead of one missile. A one-hour flight of an airplane costs a maximum of $ 5,000. That is, using aircraft is 100 times cheaper than using missiles.

In addition, unlike an airplane, an ATACMS won’t intercept the Shahed or a cruise missile. 

Why do we need ATACMS?

It is with the help of ATACMS that the best option for the liberation of Crimea is possible, because these ballistic missiles, with a range of 300 kilometers, even now can reach any point in Crimea, any of the 150 military facilities, military garrisons that are in Crimea.

The use of these missiles will allow us to de-occupy Crimea not in a frontal way as we are fighting now, after which there are sometimes lunar landscapes such as Bakhmut and Severodonetsk.

We need ATACMS so that Crimea does not become a lunar landscape and so that by such a surgical method we could cut out these cancerous tumors in Crimea, these military facilities of the Russian Federation.

Moreover, we don’t need a lot of missiles, just three or four for each facility. This is about half a thousand missiles to accomplish these combat missions. But again, it all depends on political will or some agreement that hangs over Ukraine like a sword over Damocles.

It seems that the Biden-Obama-Clinton administration just sold us out piece by piece or as a whole. Well, at least for now, I still have these thoughts.

Military expert and the former adviser to Ukraine’s President office Oleksiy Arestovich says, that the president’s office has officially stated that the lion’s share of the products that fly into our heads in the form of shakhed drones and missiles are products of American companies. So, today, good people got down to business and calculated how much the Americans’ inability to close the loopholes through which sanctioned items get to Russia costs them.

Arestovich won’t tell the whole formula, but the logic is this: an American manufacturer of chips that supplies them to the Russian Federation, through loopholes, earns a separate $1.3 million a month on sales of chips for missiles.

And the U.S. budget, the American budget, will spend $251 million to stop this threat, that is, on our air defense. That is 190 times more!

Dear Americans, look and think about how this works and how much America’s inability to close the loopholes for sanctions costs.

Ukraine Front Lines

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