ATACMS missiles transferred to Kiev not effective against tanks — Forbes

 ATACMS missiles with cluster munition capabilities that Ukraine has received from the US will not be able to do much damage to Russian armored vehicles, Forbes writes.

The edition notes that in the ATACMS modification shipped by Washington, around a thousand grenade-sized submunitions are scattered after detonation, which in most cases cannot cause serious damage to a tank or other armored vehicle. As US army major James Hutton explained, "Upon impact and detonation, each grenade breaks up into a large number of high-velocity steel fragments that are effective against targets such as truck tires, missile rounds, thin-skinned vehicles and radar antennas."

On October 18, The New York Times reported that the US had shipped to Ukraine about 20 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles, on the condition of Kiev’s pledge not to fire them into Russian territory.