HIMARS are capable of striking targets 48 miles away, with rockets holding the explosive equivalent of 500-pound bombs.
It's the most advanced weapons system provided to Ukraine to date, called High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS."It can fire dozens of rockets very quickly, whereas cannon artillery takes more time to get its effects on the target," Center for Strategic and International Studies Senior Advisor Mark Cancian said."It can attack before an adversary's artillery can pick up and move.
"They're also good when paired with some of the other systems that the Ukrainians have been getting," Cancian continued."Drones, for example, which can spot artillery positions and the counter artillery radars that we've been providing when a Russian artillery unit fires — These radars can see where the shell is coming from, calculate where the control is coming from, and then Ukrainians can direct fire on that location.
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