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  in 9 months*
context: 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." >
  
  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. >
  
  Not to mention familiarity with the stuff would still be useful. >
  
  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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  "This gives them a longer-range capability, long-range fires capability, that will enable them, again, to conduct operations in defence of their country and take back their sovereign territory, Russian-occupied areas."
  "The more long-range our weapons are and the more mobile our troops are, the sooner Russia's brutal aggression will end," Mr Zelensky wrote. "Together with [the US] we stand against terror." >
  
  Good and Putin can cry about it all he wants. Time for Ukraine to strike deeper into Russia >
  
  90 miles isn’t very deep into Russia. In fact it’s likely not reaching Russia at all since the eastern Ukraine is contested. >
  
  Unlike Russia, Ukraine's objective won't be to hit cities, populated areas, and other various war-crimes with the missiles.  They don't need the missiles to go deep into the Russian heartland.  
  However these new missiles do put a lot of Russian military targets near the border at risk, there are massive ammo dumps near the Russian border that are well out of HIMAR range that are going to get bombed very soon.  Russia's front-line will soon be having major logistical issues.  
  Russian artillery guns will be getting targeted and destroyed well before they are in range to fire at Ukrainian forces.  Ukrainian artillery teams firing cheap conventional round will then be able to engage Russian positions very cost-effectively with little to no risk.    
  The only responses Russia will have will be counter-artillery with their own long-range munitions or airstrikes.  Ukraine is saturated with MANPADS and other anti-air defense making both of the  options costly.  Add in that Russia can't keep up with western production of modern missiles and planes and the February Russian offense is looking pretty bleak.  Of course their is a third choice, it's the easiest, cheapest, and most logical one which would be for Russia to just pull out of Ukraine but well Putin isn't a very logical or rational man. >
  
  Russia moved their supply depots just out of HIMARS range. Then they have to use inefficient methods to truck supplies to the front lines.
  Longer range missiles will force the Russians to put their depots even further away and worsen their logistics problems. >
  
  lets hope they use them where it hit hardest