(26-11-2024, 09:18 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Monday's ATACMS strike is third major Ukrainian deep strike strategic targets in around Kursk since US latest, UK & France—authorized Ukraine to use its best foreign missiles against targets inside Russia. Battle for Kursk escalates, more Ukrainian strikes are likely & further Russian retaliation is likely too. Terrifying ballistic missile raid on Ukrainian city Thursday is widely viewed as a response to those ATACMS thundering down on Russia.
Ukraine’s US-Made ATACMS Rain Down On Front-Line Air Base Khalino near to Kursk, storm finally rolled in early Monday, “What a F...k? Is exploding!” a Russian soldier exclaimed on video, at least 1 of the 3,700-pound ATACMS burst on Khalino airbase, 70 miles from Russia-Ukraine border. An ATACMS ranges as far as 190 miles, raid have had effect of “potentially temporarily putting airfield out of action,” Frontelligence Insight said a Ukrainian analysis a good news for 20,000-strong Ukrainian force holding a 250-sq-mile around town of Sudzha 50 miles south west of Khalino, force is expecting a massive Russian assault. Khalino is closest major airfield to Kursk battlefield, so makes sense Russian air force has been staging its main ground-attack subsonic jets Su-25s, at base. The jets has been badly bled by Ukrainian air in 33 mths of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine: Ukrainians have shot down or damaged few dozen or about200 Su-25s Russia operated prior to 2022.
Khalino strike also knocked out additional Su-25s. Russians is scrambling to build revetments at base, offering some protection for their planes, possible many Su-25s evacuated just prior to the ATACMS raid. “Activity at base had noticeably decreased in recent days, leaving whether a significant of aircraft were hit,” that doesn’t mean base—specifically, fuel tanks & command facilities, plus warehouses & nearby air-defense batteries weren’t worth striking by one or more Ukraine modest inventory ATACMS, numbered a few dozen rockets low, hit Khalino could deprive Russia’s drone of a critical front-line staging, if no surface-to-air missile batteries or radars went up in flames in raid, there is a new gap in Russian air defenses, “could create opportunities for future strikes with more cheaper & numerous drones,” according to Frontellience Insight.