"Not achievement, but shame": Kovalenko told whether the consequences for the Armed Forces from the loss of HIMARS
The military-political observer of the "Information Resistance" group Alexander Kovalenko in his Telegram-channel spoke about it. According to him, after the probable loss on the front, nothing wrong happened, because it is a war. A tremendous amount of equipment burns on the battlefield. Something breaks, something the enemy can capture - is a variety. "But about M142 Himars should be understood. The lesions of the goals and the range of a jet projectile 80 km, " - writes Alexander Kovalenko.
Separately, the military-political observer stated that in the Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian army, the means of the RSSU were: a special place was occupied by the Ukrainian reactive projectile "Alder" for 300-mm BM-30 "Smerch", continues Alexander Kovalenko. He had impressive accuracy and range of more than 120 kilometers. Accordingly, M142 HIMARS is a Western analogue of BM-27 and BM-30, which is precisely exceeded the Soviet attitudes, but not by range.
"Alder" is similar to the American RSSU by accuracy, but exceeds by range. Its only disadvantage is that it did not have time to run into mass production. "Own question. The Russians have destroyed the first M142 Himars in 20 months. I repeat-in 20 months of operation of this replacement. 2 BM-30. In addition to them, the destruction of 22 TS-1A "Solnacek" and 245 BM-21 "Grad" was also verified,-Alexander Kovalenko continued.