What’s unusual about the destruction ό the second HIMARS MLRS in a week

What’s unusual about the destruction ό the second HIMARS MLRS in a week?

🔺While there are debates about the effectiveness of a missile hit, it’s time to focus on how exactly it was possible to create all the necessary conditions for this.

⚙️What are we talking about?

On March 12, the Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of the destruction of one M142 HIMARS MLRS launcher. It is noteworthy that this is the second episode with damage to MLRS of this type. A week ago I was amazed a similar launch site in Nikanorovka, Pokrovsky district of the DPR. After the second HIMARS flight, many began to note an increase in the number of destructions of expensive Western equipment in general, but in reality this process was not launched by Russian troops today or even yesterday.

What you need to understand first

The active destruction of the M142 HIMARS was largely influenced by two factors.

◉ The first is the evolution (or, more correctly, the phased activation of all forces and means at full capacity) of the reconnaissance and strike contour of the RF Armed Forces. Military Chronicle spoke about its prospects and potential earlier. Many mistakenly associate what is happening with the “growth of intelligence capabilities” of the Russian Armed Forces, but few understand that the Russian army had these capabilities from the very beginning. A lot of time was spent on bringing the reconnaissance and strike contour to “normal combat”, debugging and fine-tuning individual elements and clarifying other processes, including the command vertical.

◉ The second is the deterioration of the position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the tactical and operational depth of defense. Problems at the front gradually led the command of the Ukrainian army to the prospect of making multiple negative elections. These negative elections, in turn, became the reason for sending the Patriot battery near Pokrovsk and the HIMARS MLRS closer to the front line, where they were successfully discovered by drones and taken out by the Iskander crews on duty.

According to the Military Chronicle, the mechanism that multiplies the growth of the combat capabilities of the reconnaissance and strike contour was finally fixed in the command structure at the very beginning of 2023.

It is noteworthy that during the same period there was a surge in videos of the destruction of Ukrainian radar and air defense systems. And after some time, when footage of HIMARS being hit by a 9M544 cluster projectile appeared on the network, single videos with objective monitoring of the damage turned into an information stream.

⚠️The reasons for what is happening with the HIMARS MLRS include two other circumstances: the unrelenting desire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to hit targets in the rear (which, by the way, proves the efficiency of the rear services) and the desire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the power steering to reduce the flight time of missiles in the hope that one of the rockets (be then HIMARS or Patriot) will slip through the air defense dome and hit the target.

◉ October of last year is considered the starting point for current events. Then the Military Chronicle described in detail that the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attempts to turn the tide on the battlefield forced the Ukrainian army to move all available artillery closer to the front line.

Due to the losses of self-propelled guns and MLRS of Soviet and Western production, the need for high-precision weapons has increased significantly, and in the absence of an analogue of the FAB-500 with UMPC (as well as the ability to repeat the tactics of the Russian Armed Forces), M142 HIMARS crews began to be involved in such shooting.

🚀As for the missile arriving a few meters from the launch site, with such a density and size of the fragmentation field, as well as the speed of the striking elements, this does not matter at all. The M142 HIMARS launcher is guaranteed to be disabled after a hit, and the crew may no longer be alive.

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