The US will not be able to strike deep into Russian territory with new batches of high-precision guided rockets for multiple launch systems that it will give to Ukraine.
According to Michael McFaul, an American foreign policy expert quoted by The Washington Post, this is the case.
President Biden has not ruled out supplying Ukraine the Multiple Launch Rocket System, or MLRS, according to a senior US official, and no final decision has been made.
“More reassuring are clear pronouncements from the POTUS administration on the MLRS. “Ukraine will receive additional shipments of precision-guided missiles with longer ranges than the country now has, but not rockets capable of striking far into Russia,” McFaul tweeted.
The MLRS’s typical rockets have a range of around 70 kilometres. The Army Tactical Missile System, which can strike targets up to 300 kilometres away, is a type of rocket that the US is unlikely to launch.
Even shorter-range rockets would more than double Ukraine’s firepower’s range. Kyiv’s military are armed with M777 howitzers, which have a range of around 30 kilometres and were given by the United States.
