Originally Posted by
NutLoose
What really annoys me is the rhetoric coming out of the USA, that they are going to allow Ukraine to use ATAMS AND Storm Shadow to attack Russia.
Storm Shadow is an Anglo French missile system and has diddly squat to do with the USA saying if Ukraine can use it to attack or not. It is not up to them.
I.e the missile is a totally independent weapon and has NO US content, so it is up to the U.K. or France to say if it can be used, NOT the US.
The report I read, particularly said "using American systems"which in the context of the article meant aircraft systems and this implicitly F16