“No final decision has been made on sending the missile, but the administration is working through the complicated details now, according to one Biden administration official.”

Source: https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1824102418679824775?t=ktOn5clTpY5Jodd-w6BVSw&s=19

by Hotrico

47 comments

  4. i guess they want to test how stealth they are. indirectly, ukraine has become a testing ground for weapons and russia’s response to different types of weapons.

  6. Sullivan has consistently guided Biden away from approving things like this. Until Jake Sullivan is no longer the NSA with the President’s ear, do not get your hopes up. And hope that whoever is President next replaces Sullivan quickly with someone who is willing to let Ukraine win, and not just freeze the conflict.

  9. I am skeptical, because US is very anal about giving UKR anything really long range, except ATACMS but those are not allowed for use over the border.

    If true would be great, more storm shadow equivalent to bomb Crimea, hehe.

  11. Maybe it’s a counter to deter Russia from receiving ballistic missiles from Iran.

  15. For use where?
    Within the confines of Ukrainian territory?
    I’ll believe it when I see it.

  18. Very tired of the long decision times and teaser leaks, etc. Prudence just requires good judgement. It doesn’t have to take a long time. Send them!

  26. My dream is finally coming true! The moment F-16’s were launched I was typing comments that these were what I wanted. These are missiles for SO many of Ukraine’s current battlefield needs.

  31. Russians are getting cooked by frag grenades dropped from $1000 drones already. This should spice things up nicely.

  33. *”Ukraine penetrates deeply into Russian Federation. Opposition still at minimal energy.”*

    *US “open” to supplying Ukraine with AGM-158 JASSM* 

    The sniff of potential victory wafts into D.C. Wanting to be seen on winning side, enthusiasm for fucking up Putin reaches fever pitch. Smoke ’em if you got ’em.

  34. So it seems the plan was never so much limiting Ukraine, but limiting the response Russia might ramp up to if Ukraine escalated. Letting Russia spread itself thin as they waste units faster than can replace could be easier if you don’t escalate too quickly. Just as we’ve heard the premise that Ukraine falling back but making Russie lose far more units is generally not that bad of a compromise.

    Russia does have a lot of units, they clearly save all the old stuff, but there’s not way they can replace all that. If they were smart they’d at least train and build up one big invasion force, not 1/3 or 1/2 the projected force needed in small waves like this.\

    It makes it easy to drain their equipment down this way and those endless stores of equipment is really their one big advantage that NATO can’t replicate because we can’t really ship endless amounts of old equipment we probably most got rid of anyway.

    If Ukraine could even use more advancement equipment at once, with less training time there would have to be some higher loss rate, but also unknown levels of Russia escalating right as Ukraine is building up. Like we wanted Russia to not feel pressured to bring in the air force until more air defense was setup. They could have been more aggressive with the air force early on, but they felt they had the upper hand.

    In many cases you’re better off letting an opponent think they have it easier than they do than showing them everything you have right at the start. So I think this strategy works out just fine and is lower risk for escalation or Russia being able to draw allies into the war or some countries getting nuclear cold war feet.

  35. This is a missile? In our country we would use this for inter city transport for many people :/

  36. Cruise missiles. The drone of the 90’s.

    Still creates tremendous kabooms. This would be over the horizon death, mounted to the jets. Lovely. Just lovely.

  37. Maybe just send them instead of announcing it so they can, you know, surprise the Russians?

  40. i wish they would keep the range of ukranian weapons a secret. surprices are more fun

  42. “Preparing” So like another year and a half? I’m gonna be pissed if they play fuck fuck games like with the f-16s.
    I can deal with poor healthcare if we can vaporize evil with efficiency. So let’s fuckin go!!

  44. If they can’t fire them in Russia I see zero use to having them beyond crimea which can already be reached with atacms

  47. GFY Russia. You’ve just become a proving ground for the latest and greatest war shit we can even think of which is centuries ahead of you.

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