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ATACMS. What is it? Why does it matter so much? How many are there? How many will Ukraine get? Every question you could possibly have, answered. It's the thread you've all been waiting for... 🧵 (1/72)
Colby Badhwar
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Colby Badhwar
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✍️ analysis @InsiderEng, @CEPA, & @Tochnyi; news @ArchivesDefense | Procurement, arms sales & security assistance➡️🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼 | DMs open for inquiries
- 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Yesterday, POLITICO broke that the Pentagon paused some shipments of ammo to Ukraine. The decision, driven by the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, is claimed by DoD to be in response to concerns about their own stockpiles. Is that true? No. It is not. 🧵 ⬇️ 1/19
- 🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Kursk operation is likely causing considerable panic in the Biden Administration. Why? Because their "escalation risks" narrative is further being shattered. Ukraine has launched a major operation into Russian territory and Russia will have no response other than to
- 🇩🇪 Reuters: Rheinmetall to convert German factories to make defence equipment Two plants, one in Berlin and one in Neuss, currently producing auto parts, will become hybrid plants and have some space taken over by the Weapons & Ammo division to produce components for military
- ❗🇨🇿🇺🇦 The Czech Initiative has delivered 1.6 million rounds of large calibre artillery ammunition to Ukraine. -President Petr Pavel Via Reuters
- 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Q: Why are long-range strikes on Ukraine still viewed as escalatory? A: Long range strikes don't help Ukraine liberate their territory, "and of course we're worried about escalation." An absolutely clownish response. 🤡🤡🤡
00:00 - Better to ask for forgiveness than for permission: Ukraine's Kursk Operation has outmanoeuvred both Russia & United States. The Biden Administration has been boxed in and forced to give tacit approval to an operation they didn't know of & are still reticent about. 1/22 🧵
- On March 12, the Biden Admin finally announced a new Drawdown package for 🇺🇦, ending an 11 week moratorium. For 11 weeks they maintained they would not provide any new aid. They watched as ammo ran out. They watched as Avdiivka fell. Then they reversed course. Why? 1/109 🧵
- What are the chances that Witkoff connected his phone to the Kremlin's guest wifi network while Putin had him waiting around for hours? Probably pretty high. So the Russians have been reading that group chat and God knows what else.So I put a quick timeline on the insane Signal classified chat and sure enough it looks like Kremlin asset Witkoff was in Moscow when he was added to the Houthi chat. I checked Russian media and he left 3/14 Friday morning (Moscow time) meanwhile the chat was set up Thursday
- 🇺🇸🇺🇦 "Aid to Ukraine" is really an investment in American manufacturing. $51.2 billion has gone into the US defense industrial base to date. Once all funds are obligated, it will be over $60 billion. Top recipient states: 1. Arkansas - $4.25 billion 2. Alabama - $3.31 billion
- ❗️🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Just now at WH Briefing: John Kirby says that 90% of Russian aircraft are over 300km away from Ukraine, so allowing Ukraine to hit Russian territory with ATACMS wouldn't help prevent attacks on Ukraine. Absolute nonsense. 🤡
- 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Sen Tuberville: "How effective have the [ATACMS] that we've allowed the Ukrainians to shoot into Russia [been]? Gen Cavoli: "Very." "They've been extremely effective." Never forget that the Biden Admin spent 2 & a half years saying ATACMS strikes in Russia wouldn't help.
00:00 - 🇩🇪 Rheinmetall's new 155mm plant in Unterlüß, Lower Saxony, is due to be completed next month. Will probably add annual production capacity of ~50,000/y initially, bringing Rheinmetall's global total up to at least 800,000/y by year end. Will produce 100,000/y in 2026 &
- Is Russian Electronic Warfare successfully jamming the GPS signals on American provided precision guided munitions to the point that Ukraine can no longer effectively employ them? No. No it is not. Many people seem to believe so though. So what's really going on? 🧵 1/15
