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Colby Badhwar πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Profile picture
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🚨 Significant development on ATACMS. US Army Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Doug Bush is on the record saying they are ready to transfer M39A1 ATACMS to Ukraine. This means the missiles, which are officially expired, are serviceable as is.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This would suggest that a large number of M48 & M57 ATACMS which are also past their 10 year shelf life are also serviceable. As you can see below, well over 1000 missiles are in this expired but serviceable category and could potentially be transferred to πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ if Biden agrees. Image
You can see here that the M39A1s are older than the M48s and M57s. The youngest M39s are now beyond their 13 year shelf lives by a factor of 2, having last been produced in July 1997. So the chances of them being serviceable is very remote. Image

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Colby Badhwar πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Profile picture
Sep 18
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) ATACMS test firing, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
I can't TL;DR this. You're going to want to read all of it, but the key takeaway is, πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ needs ATACMS to destroy time sensitive targets & reduce expenditure rates of Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG. Without it, certain high value Russian assets are largely safe from destruction. (2/72)
The MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) is a quasi-ballistic, manoeuvring tactical missile. It is a product of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Assault Breaker program, which began in the 1970s and sought to develop new deep strike capabilities. (3/72)
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Colby Badhwar πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Profile picture
Sep 8
🚨 It's the day we've all been waiting for: ABC News reports that the US will finally supply Ukraine with ATACMS.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-se…
"The US has found it has more ATACMS in its inventory than originally assessed, the two officials told ABC. The serviceability of the rediscovered stockpile is not yet clear, nor which specific type of missiles it contains."

Lmao did they forget about their expired inventory?
I really don't know what to make of this reporting right now. So many different emotions. I'll just say that nothing is final until the Drawdown announcement is made. I'm away on travel right now but hope to be able to publish my ATACMS thread next week. Stay tuned.
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Colby Badhwar πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Profile picture
Aug 20
US military aid to πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ will determine the outcome of this war. Congress has already appropriated & authorized significant sums, but the Biden Admin has continuously slow walked & rationed every major weapon system delivered. Let's review the past, and then look forwards. 🧡(1/24) Image
This thread will focus on Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows delivery of equipment from US stock to meet Ukraine's immediate needs. Congress has authorized $32.2 billion in PDA since the invasion began: $14b in FY22 & $18.2b in FY23. (2/24)
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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ hasn't received $32.2b worth of equipment though. At the end of FY22, Biden allowed $2.1b worth of authority to expire. To make matters worse, the Pentagon was overvaluing equipment by using the replacement cost, instead of the depreciated value. (3/24)
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Colby Badhwar πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Profile picture
Jul 9
Because there haven’t been enough of them already...

Cluster munitions: a thread. 🧡

Yes, I know, I know. I’m going to address some big picture issues here though. Pro Kremlin groups like Human Rights Watch don’t want you to see this!

1/22
US federal law prohibits the sale or transfer of cluster munitions (CMs) with a dud rate that exceeds 1%, however the President can waive this restriction. The DoD’s own policy, dating back to the Bush Admin in 2008, is to phase CMs w/ a dud rate exceeding 1% out of service. 2/22
This policy was reversed in 2017 by the Trump Admin, & has remained under Biden. Consequently, the DoD maintains an inventory of CMs that exceed this 1% standard. The US is not actively procuring new CMs, so as old inventory hits the end of shelf life, it is decommissioned. 3/22
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Colby Badhwar πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Profile picture
Jan 6
🚨BREAKING: Details of the $2.85 billion PDA package for Ukraine!
❗️ Pentagon confirms that M109 Paladin SPGs will be provided.
127mm Zuni Rockets, 4 of which are carried and fired from the LAU-10 rocket pod, will be mounted on existing Ukrainian aircraft. These will likely be unguided (there is a APKWS like guided version), and can be utilized the same way Ukrainian helos fire Soviet S-5/S-8 rockets.
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Dec 17, 2022
Huge development today on enhancing πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ air defences, this time out of πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·, where @pronewsgr reported statements made by Def Min Panagiotopoulos on πŸ‡¬πŸ‡· S-300s. I've been promising this thread for a while as a follow up to the one I wrote on πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬. This is even more significant.
🧡1/11
In my thread on πŸ‡§πŸ‡¬ I outlined the Soviet systems that they have which Ukraine needs and could immediately put into operation. Most importantly are their S-300s. Slovakia already provided theirs, Bulgaria isn't budging, but Greece is now willing.
2/11
In November @NedosVassilis reported for @Kathimerini_gr that the US had again proposed to Greece the replacement of their S-300s and TOR-M1 SAMs, so that these systems could be provided to Ukraine. This was previously proposed in the Spring, but not accepted.
3/11
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