larry johnson gives us more info herein on why the orange man is starting more war the empire can't support or win;
The United States, according to Donald Trump’s letter to Congress, has started a new war with Iran. Apparently no one told the Orange Man that the US does not have enough weapons in its arsenal to pursue a campaign that lasts longer than a month.
Let’s start with some basics. The HIMARS is not a missile or rocket… It is a launcher. It has been reported that missiles fired from HIMARS hit the Iranian coast the last three days, i.e., Saturday, Sunday and Monday. There are three types of missiles/rockets that can be fired from the HIMARS:
PrSM (Precision Strike Missile) — its newer successor to ATACMS. The maximum range is 500+ km in its baseline Increment 1 form. It was deliberately designed to exceed 499 km, the old floor imposed by the INF Treaty before that treaty lapsed in 2019, and open-source estimates put its effective reach at roughly 500–600 km. Later increments are intended to extend it further, but the fielded version is the 500+ km baseline.
GMLRS (Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System) — precision rockets. The baseline GMLRS Unitary and GMLRS Alternative Warhead both have a range of about 70 kilometers (roughly 45 miles). The newer GMLRS Extended-Range (GMLRS-ER) roughly doubles that, reaching targets up to 150 kilometers away.
ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) — longer-range ballistic missiles. The maximumrange is approximately 300 km. The early cluster-munition variants (M39) were shorter — around 165 km — but the GPS-aided unitary variants (M39A1, M48, M57) all reach out to about 300 km, which has been the program’s ceiling throughout its service life.........more.........
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