Missile would cross “red line”

Moscow has warned that if Washington supplies Kyiv with its long-range MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System it will have crossed a “red line” and become “a party to the conflict”


Russian control
Kyiv
UKRAINE
Crimea
RUSSIA
300km 186 miles

Aug 9, Saky airbase: Series of explosions rock Russian base in Crimea, 230km from Ukrainian-controlled territory


MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS)

Solid fuel, range: Up to 300km 
Missile length: 4m, diameter: 610mm

Warheads:Anti-personnel submunitions, or 221kg high- explosive – same warhead used in Navy’s Harpoon anti-ship missile

Precision: GPS guidance system gives CEP (circular error probable) of 10-50m

Flight: Missile performs rapid and sudden course corrections to avoid interception

Launcher: High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) supplied to Ukraine


Sources: Defence View, Reuters, Lockheed Martin
Picture: Lockheed Martin 
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