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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  The US says additional military aid to Ukraine worth $2.2bn will include long-range missiles capable of doubling its attack range.
  Previously, Ukraine's longest range weapon was the Himars rocket system, which can hit targets at a range of up to 80km. Kyiv used the system to devastating effect during its counter-offensive in the south and east last year.
  The new package - which will also include additional Himars missiles and 250 Javelin anti-armour systems - comes amid mounting concerns that Western nations have been too slow to provide fresh military aid to Ukraine.
  
  
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context: Ukraine has been able to successfully utilize the GMLRS (HIMARS) missiles because they have hundreds of cheap unguided long-range artillery rockets that can saturate Russian Air Defense while the GMLRS missiles punch through.
  But the Ukrainian long-range artillery rockets can't reach target areas that are this far away. Instead the West should buy up the cheap Scud/Tochka missiles in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and give to Ukraine. These cheap, old but long-range missiles will be used to saturate Russian air defense so the more precise GLSDB (and one day hopefully the ATACMS) can punch through. >
  
  That's a really good idea. We should be buying up all the high volume cheap shit that the Russians saturated the world with, and give it to the Ukrainians to shoot right back at them. There's a symmetry to that. >
  
  Russia likes wave tactics, give them a dose of their own medicine. >
  
  The GLSDB sounds like a great way to say fuck you, precisely you, and nobody else but you. >
  
  That’s the R9x aka the flying slap chop. >
  
  True, GLSDB is more like "Fuck this building/bunker/vehicle in particular."