Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Re artillery, I still cannot understand the reluctance of the west to give Ukraine long range MLRS weapons,, it would enable Ukraine to target Russian artillery from well outside Russias normal counter artillery range. A simple understanding, use these weapons at anytime without the wests agreement to strike Russian territory will cease any future hardware support or replenishments full stop.
In the meantime we need to seriously up our supply in both quantity of artillery weapons and munitions replenishment.
The MLRS supplied have a range up to 70 km and the M777 artillery pieces up to 40 km. This is ( I read ) beyond the range of Russian artillery, but obviously not their rockets.