40
submitted 1 year ago by Ftten@kbin.social to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

The Defense Department announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] SpaceCadet2000@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In a technical sense, they're not similar at all.

ATACMS is a ground launched ballistic missile, so it follows a straight-forward parabolic trajectory: it climbs very high, goes very fast and then comes down on top of programmed GPS coordinates. Storm Shadow is a stealthy air launched cruise missile, it flies low at subsonic speeds and can manoeuver following a pre-progammed path (for example, to go around known air defense locations) and had advanced optics to locate the target.

Technologically Storm Shadow is way more advanced and it has a higher payload too. It also costs 4 times as much per missile, there are less of them and they can't carry a cluster bomb warhead because in Europe we decided not to make those weapons anymore.

Both would be very useful for Ukraine.

[-] 404CameranotFound@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Good thing the US is supplying cluster munitions to Ukraine.

this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
40 points (97.6% liked)

Ukraine

8205 readers
783 users here now

News and discussion related to Ukraine

*Sympathy for enemy combatants is prohibited.

*No content depicting extreme violence or gore.

*Posts containing combat footage should include [Combat] in title

*Combat videos containing any footage of a visible human must be flagged NSFW


Donate to support Ukraine's Defense

Donate to support Humanitarian Aid


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS