Putin’s Controlling the Escalation Management in Ukraine
16 September 2024
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War in Ukraine
This is something Samuel Cranny-Evans, an associate fellow at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, has looked at closely. The Tornado-S looks much like the US M270, which is basically a double HIMARS, carrying 12 missiles instead of six. Similarly, the Tochka-U is rather like an ATACMs, a single larger missile on a truck. But in the critical areas of guidance and accuracy, the equivalence ends. The US versions can — unless jammed — maneuver in flight and strike within in a radius as small as 2 meters. The Russians versions, especially the Tochka-U, can’t.