The Defense Department announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs.
Interesting to note Atacms not in this aid package
If anyone knows the difference between storm Shadow and Atacms I’d like to know, I’m not versed in specifics of ammunitionVery similar to storm shadow, but storm shadow has better target acquisition, target painting, and lay of the land capabilities which give it an edge over atacms
Atacms is more like a dummy powerful HIMARS system.
ATACMS is just long range munitions (300km) that can also be launched from HIMARS.
Storm Shadow comes from Britain and can travel 550km and needs to be launched from airplane.
Ukraine wants those long range weapons so they can fire them from safe distances (outside of fire range) and also be able to fire at supply targets deep in occupied territory to starve Russian soldiers of ammunition.
West was resisting providing long range weapons to Ukrainy in fears that Ukraine would fire them to Russia, causing escalation. The storm shadow as I understand was first long range weapon where UK said “screw it” to that.
Frankly at this point I think that fear is unwarranted and only makes the war last longer.