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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by egorfine on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:45AM (#38924170)
Yeah, our military says HIMARS are pretty much done due to the russian EW. By dragging this war, the US gave russians the opportunity to learn and battle test their solutions against HIMARS.

Excaliburs are on a much different level though. Word is, you don't need much EW at all. You merely have to give them a strong look and that's enough to drive it way off course.

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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by greedo on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @09:53AM (#38926849)
Excalibur is highly effective when not being jammed by Pole-21 systems. It's just that Ukraine currently doesn't have enough systems to counter the GPS jamming. GMLRS faces the same issues. Both systems have inertial guidance in the face of jamming, but the accuracy drops off quite a bit. Just means you need to launch more GMLRS per target, or attack when jamming is off.
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