Originally Posted by
Tartiflette Fan
This article- quoting the
„RIA-Novosti“ news agency - claims that the Russians have captured an intact ATACMS guidance system *. Serial numbers on the system supposedly show that it was supplied from a US Army depot in Alabama.
If it came from Alabama, it is not unlikely that these are Gulf War (1991)-era ATACMS that have been sitting in storage since being returned from the desert. A good friend of mine did a TDY to Huntsville over a decade ago. He related to me that there were many CONEX boxes from Desert storm that would occasionally be plundered for spare parts for tanks, IFV's, Blackhawks, SPA, etc.
Granted, the ATACMS are missiles, but since the Army's Missile Command is in Huntsville, Alabama, it seems logical to me that they'd be stored/sourced from there.