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Ukraine now has JDAM extended-range smart bombs [1]

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Date: 2023-03-08

JDAM

Ukraine has JDAM extended-range guided munitions now, according to a US general.

JDAM is a winged kit that is attached to a bomb that allows it to glide up to 45 miles to make a precise strike on a target. It can be fitted to bombs up to about 2,000 pounds.

The Ukrainian Air Force can now employ Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range precision-guided bombs, or JDAM-ERs, against Russian forces, says the U.S. Air Force's top officer in Europe. Ukraine's stockpile of these bombs, which can hit targets up to 45 miles away thanks to their pop-out wing kits, is currently relatively small. However, they could already present real problems for Russia's military as The War Zone has previously explored in detail. U.S. Air Force Gen. James Hecker, head of U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), as well as NATO's Allied Air Command and U.S. Air Forces Africa (AFAFRICA), provided details about Ukraine's use of the JDAM-ER at a media roundtable that The War Zone and other outlets attended earlier today. The roundtable occurred on the sidelines of the 2023 Air and Space Forces Association's Warfare Symposium, which opened today in Aurora, Colorado. …….. Hecker also stressed that the total number of JDAM-ERs that Ukraine currently has is limited. "They have enough to do a couple of strikes," he said.

The article includes this tweet and speculates that it could be a JDAM strike. x 🇺🇦Massive strike on Russian entrenched forces. You can see the shockwave rush towards them.#RussiaIsCollapsing #RussianArmy #RussiaisATerroistState #RussiaIsLosing #Ukraine #Ukrainian pic.twitter.com/x3qCg7J32v — Intermarium 24 (@intermarium24) March 5, 2023 Here is a video describing a JDAM strike: x A visual example of JDAM testing to understand what can be expected from this type of weapon. pic.twitter.com/LBzR6CAcbx — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) March 7, 2023 ------------------------------------------------------------

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has done what few other leaders around the world and even in his own party have done — he refused to go to Ukraine to meet with President Zelenskyy.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has invited House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to visit the embattled nation amid his hesitancy to greenlight aid, a request the California Republican quickly shut down. “He has to come here to see how we work, what’s happening here, what war caused us, which people are fighting now, who are fighting now. And then after that, make your assumptions,” Zelenskyy told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview. When informed about the Ukrainian invitation, the speaker told CNN that he would not take the trip and blamed the Biden administration for not acting quickly enough to aid Ukraine. Still, McCarthy (R-Calif.) held his position that the U.S. should not be sending a “blank check” to Kyiv, repeating a position he initially made last fall that sparked uproar from members of both parties.

-----------------------------------------------------— Here’s something different — instead of appealing directly to Putin in the naive hope that the tsar will make it right, these guys are refusing to obey orders. Let’s see how long it takes before they are all dead.

x As if we are now getting used to almost daily videos from Russian mobilised soldiers, this one is different. The commander of this platoon is not appealing to Putin, but directly stating he is refusing to obey orders. These men were transferred to "DPR" for "meat assaults" and… https://t.co/KwxixW3cLe pic.twitter.com/vPWEYUDRZ7 — Dmitri (@wartranslated) March 7, 2023

Russia’s response so far has been pure bullshit.

x 2/ Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov and the military prosecutor have met with the relatives of the mobiks. He is also sending a representative to meet the men. Gladkov writes on his official Telegram channel: — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) March 7, 2023

x 6/ Today I am sending my representative to our guys. We will promptly share all the information with the relatives. We will organise a communication session if possible." — ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) March 7, 2023

Blah, blah, blah. Those guys are dead men walking.

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Welcome home.

x 130 Ukrainian defenders returned home from Russian captivity. Among them are 87 Mariupol defenders, 71 of whom are from Azovstal.

🇺🇦❤️https://t.co/qHsplS6ejB pic.twitter.com/AsQMgkOpeU — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) March 7, 2023

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The number of martyrs and heroes is growing.

x Remember the 4 Ukrainian soldiers who were killed on December 25th while on a sabotage mission inside Russia, in the Bryansk region?



Their funeral service took place in Kyiv today.



Rest In Peace heroes.



🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/hC6XW8ajft — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 7, 2023

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Haven’t heard much from Kreminna lately. This is supposedly northeast of a village that is a few kilometers northwest of Kreminna on the P66 highway.

x Russians lost 5 MBTs in this battle and what is interesting is the location because this is northeast of Chervonopopivka, Luhansk.



Source: https://t.co/WZ8YZXrvAA#Ukraine #Luhansk #Kreminna #Svatove pic.twitter.com/sd0cCruZJu — (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) March 7, 2023

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Kaboom

x The Security Service of Ukraine claims the destruction of Russian TOS-1A Solntsepyok with the help of FPV kamikaze drone. https://t.co/7NVN9ZHNdv pic.twitter.com/XgLFhbwp7v — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) March 8, 2023

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I really don’t feel sorry for these guys. They are more concerned about staying in the rear where it’s safer than about participating in an immoral clusterfuck.

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