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Biden ‘open’ to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine (www.politico.com)
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[–] tal@lemmy.today 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

Biden ‘open’ to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine

The Pentagon is already working through fixes to allow Ukraine to launch the weapons from its fighter planes.

The White House’s willingness to give Ukraine the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile

That thing is stealthy, fairly new, can penetrate air defenses, but is only available in limited numbers; it'd be used against high-value targets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-158_JASSM

The AGM-158 JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile) is a low detection standoff air-launched cruise missile developed by Lockheed Martin for the United States Armed Forces.[7] It is a large, stealthy long-range weapon with a 1,000-pound (450 kg) armor piercing warhead.

Depending upon whether it's the -ER variant (extended range) or not:

Operational Range: 230 mi (370.4 km)

Operational Range: > 575 mi (926 km)

EDIT: For perspective:

370 km:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/eacb3c80-bb9f-4a2f-a178-400885ae0105.png

926 km:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/53c1a3b3-c4a7-408c-8d35-ecf549cb914d.png

[–] cdarwin@c.im 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@tal @BrianPierce

Biden ‘open’ to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/15/biden-missiles-ukraine-russia-00174147

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I understand. Did you maybe paste the wrong URL? That's a link to the same article that OP linked to.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a quirk of mastodon's interpretation of activitypub protocols and lemmy's interpretation of activitypub protocols

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oohhhh...good point. He's on a Mastodon instance. So I guess that that's basically the functional equivalent of a Twitter retweet on Mastodon.

Thanks.

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