Hearing was April 30th. I always felt that JASSM was a better mid to long term solution over ATACMS. JASSM appears to be identical to Storm Shadow and Taurus cruise missiles. There are a few European countries that have JASSM. IIRC all JASSM versions have more range and JASSM ER has significantly more range. AMRAAM is also a critical air to air missile that I believe Ukraine needs with the F16s.
Cluster Bombs? CBU 97/99 soon? Simular to a 155mm BONUS rnd on steroids. Instead of Two EFP it has 40 EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrators) submunitions. In each 1000 lb CBU.
I don’t get it, we need to get rid of it…they can use it. What’s to talk about, just send them!
Sounds like Brown is saying the USA is going to send JASSM. I might be parsing words, but there would be no point in making the aircraft capable of using JASSM and train the pilots if USA didn’t intend to send JASSM. Of course Brown may have simply been referring to weapon systems in the general sense.
Send them
With JASSM you can hit all sorts of targets, like bridges or something.
The Ukrainian conflict is a perfect place to see how our equipment performs against a near peer adversary.
The intel that the US could obtain from sending and overseeing the weapons would be invaluable.
They just completed trials of launching Tomahawks from a ground based launcher. We got thousands of legacy tomahawks just sitting waiting to be decommissioned. Some of them probably have the old terrain following navigation, so they’ll be impervious to jamming. Why not send those?!
My only take from this video – how Michael Scott would address general Brown 😀
For what I can officially read about these on wikipedia, lets give it a go and see what headache they can deal to our comrade invadors!
Send everything. We can remake weapons, but might not get another chance to fuck with Russia.
Seems like everyone downplays F16’s but it opens a whole new world of munitions that ukraine hasn’t been able to touch. Makes sense for ukraine to downplay them as well. Those munitions change the shape of the battle field just like the russians glide bombs did.
the gigachad holding the sign
Range of 230mi …. That would be a nightmare for Russian logistics. The ER (extreme range) version of the JASSM exceeds *1,000 miles* 💀
Rapid Dragon now.
Send it
Will said! Go Ukraine
Send them now – sooner the better – Sincerely, An American Citizen
Before we worry about giving them JASSMs that *aren’t* near the end of their service life, I’m wondering when we can empty the cupboards of AGM-84E / AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER of yore. These are both checked out for the F-16 Block 50 upgrades (don’t know where the Belgian / Dutch F-16s MLU rate relative to that) and have significant mid-long range AL ground attack capabilities. The SLAM-ER can reach out and put the touch on someone out to 250km, so I’d like to think that these could supplement Storm Shadow / Scalp-EG stores for the ALCM needs.
I hate teasers as much as anyone else, so the good stuff might arrive before the ‘we forgot to say’ statement
Send all that’s needed. All of it. The longer this goes on we will eventually be sending troops.
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Are you sending Jassms?
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Good answer 😄
Hearing was April 30th. I always felt that JASSM was a better mid to long term solution over ATACMS. JASSM appears to be identical to Storm Shadow and Taurus cruise missiles. There are a few European countries that have JASSM. IIRC all JASSM versions have more range and JASSM ER has significantly more range. AMRAAM is also a critical air to air missile that I believe Ukraine needs with the F16s.
Cluster Bombs? CBU 97/99 soon? Simular to a 155mm BONUS rnd on steroids. Instead of Two EFP it has 40 EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrators) submunitions. In each 1000 lb CBU.
I don’t get it, we need to get rid of it…they can use it. What’s to talk about, just send them!
Sounds like Brown is saying the USA is going to send JASSM. I might be parsing words, but there would be no point in making the aircraft capable of using JASSM and train the pilots if USA didn’t intend to send JASSM. Of course Brown may have simply been referring to weapon systems in the general sense.
Send them
With JASSM you can hit all sorts of targets, like bridges or something.
The Ukrainian conflict is a perfect place to see how our equipment performs against a near peer adversary.
The intel that the US could obtain from sending and overseeing the weapons would be invaluable.
They just completed trials of launching Tomahawks from a ground based launcher. We got thousands of legacy tomahawks just sitting waiting to be decommissioned. Some of them probably have the old terrain following navigation, so they’ll be impervious to jamming. Why not send those?!
My only take from this video – how Michael Scott would address general Brown 😀
For what I can officially read about these on wikipedia, lets give it a go and see what headache they can deal to our comrade invadors!
Send everything. We can remake weapons, but might not get another chance to fuck with Russia.
Seems like everyone downplays F16’s but it opens a whole new world of munitions that ukraine hasn’t been able to touch. Makes sense for ukraine to downplay them as well. Those munitions change the shape of the battle field just like the russians glide bombs did.
the gigachad holding the sign
Range of 230mi …. That would be a nightmare for Russian logistics. The ER (extreme range) version of the JASSM exceeds *1,000 miles* 💀
Rapid Dragon now.
Send it
Will said! Go Ukraine
Send them now – sooner the better – Sincerely, An American Citizen
Before we worry about giving them JASSMs that *aren’t* near the end of their service life, I’m wondering when we can empty the cupboards of AGM-84E / AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER of yore. These are both checked out for the F-16 Block 50 upgrades (don’t know where the Belgian / Dutch F-16s MLU rate relative to that) and have significant mid-long range AL ground attack capabilities. The SLAM-ER can reach out and put the touch on someone out to 250km, so I’d like to think that these could supplement Storm Shadow / Scalp-EG stores for the ALCM needs.
I hate teasers as much as anyone else, so the good stuff might arrive before the ‘we forgot to say’ statement
Send all that’s needed. All of it. The longer this goes on we will eventually be sending troops.