The Hills are alive, with the sound of ATACMS.

In the First Gulf War they called these things "grid killers" because you could wipe out a whole 1000 square meter grid square with one missile. Kinda hard to believe until you see it

I’ve seen many cluster munitions in use. The coverage of this ATACMS payload is - by far - the most devastating.

Russians will announce that this was a hospital for Ukrainian POWs and that 400 POWs were killed by this "friendly fire"...

ATACMS: We're baaaack.😁

The dispersion radius of ATACMS payload is enormous, 100m+ radius is unreal.

maybe first impact was not dud, but empty missile hitting ground after discharging sub munition. sub munition landed a bit later.

A longer video was posted zoomed in on the troop concentration before the drone zoomed out ahead of the strike.

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0:20 The ATACMS missile dispenses bomblets by spinning up at altitude. The height determines the pattern on the ground. However, the M74 APAM grenades decend more slowly than the main missile section which consists primarily of the high pressure steel propulsion section and control sections. The "dud" is consistent with the main body impacting farm soil. There is another impact seen mid-screen, consistent with a main body impacting paved roadway. Since the ATACMS is a maneuvering missile (rather than ballistic), the bomblet pattern trajectory and main missile trajectory end points are not necessarily coincident.

That's exactly what ATACMS was designed to accomplish.

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Impressive coverage! Thank you for your continued reporting.🙋🏼

I don't think there's a dud, isn't it the empty case hitting the ground

Another day in Mordor, sub-munition hell

ATACMS=Sleep Dealers….

Welcome to Ukraine ATCMS!

Jesus that's a scary fucking explosion

First impact was the missile container, not a dud. The impact was in the middle of the cluster pattern

thank God that they have renewed ability to defend their country

Are you sure the "dud" wasn't the missile engine and casing impacting before the cluster munitions? The munitions are released at a certain height while the missile body and engine will continue its trajectory. The bomblets will fall afterwards.

It wasn't a dud, it was the main body of the missile which have fallen after the submuniiton was ejected.

the supposed dud was probably the carriage/booster for the cluster munitions

That would ruin your day.

First impact is not a dud. It's the body of the warhead that was carrying the cluster munitions.

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It wasn't a "dud", that first black impact was the shell casing of the sub munitions...

Thank you for the update.

No way they will be able to make 100 Ladas in one day

That drone wasn't seeking out targets. It was prepositioned for BDA.

I think the first impact is simply the cone head or other parts of the rocket that already released the bomblets. It obviously has more momentum and impacts first.

Thank you for the update. The world needs to step up the support of Ukraine.

Nice!

That poor truck that was just trying to get home!

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The spotter drone had absolutely no problem getting to the area so EW in the orccuppied territories is non-existant or the drone has the best radio frequency ever!

Was the first one really a dud? Ukraine used a technique a few months ago with artillery hitting a troop formation in a field when the first round is normal munition, so the natural instinctive reaction of the troops is to get down onto the ground. Which is absolutely ideal for the successive strikes of cluster munition which have a much better spread out target.

ATACMS = Rear Area Molester

Drones cruising in sunny day, well done.

someone on another thread said it was not a dud but the missiles unused bits crashing to the ground - after the bomblets have been ejected / dropped

Grid square removal device in action.

I don't think the first was a dud, after the ejection of the sublets they start spinning and that drag creates a delay before the sublets hit the ground, but I'm no expert at all on atacms...

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I'm not sure if this is the case but I know at one point a tactic was for a single explosive head to cause infantry to lay down which made the following cluster munitions more deadly.

ATACMS makes "good Russians."

I don't think that first "hit" in the lower left was a dud - it appears that it was the rocket section that landed after it distributed it's payload. Slow motion videos from ATACMS testing show the cluster missile spins rapidly right before the fairings separate and the APAMS scatter. That black puff is likely the drone capturing the impact of the rocket motor from one of the ATACMS rounds.

Dud is expected as they are built in the 90s, however these are still great systems since inertial navigation is more resilient to EW countermeasures.

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Best military acronym ever: ATACMS "Attack 'ems". Easy to say and remember, and to the point.

Best and most urgent place for active defense - or should we say: ATACM' defense? Ukraine's defense forces are taking measures to drive the Russian invaders out of the village of Ocheretyne in the eastern Donetsk region. That's according to Lt. Col. Nazar Voloshyn, spokesperson for the Khortytsia group of forces, Ukrinform reports, citing ArmyInform. "With regard to the situation in Ocheretyne, the enemy managed to break through and dig in in this settlement. Part of it is under the control of the enemy. This part is under our fire control. The Armed Forces and Defense Forces are taking all measures to drive the enemy out of there. Heavy fighting is currently going on there. The Armed Forces are monitoring this situation," Voloshyn said. According to him, the enemy deployed up to four brigades in this area to develop their tactical success and break through Ukrainian defenses. "For our part, measures are also being taken to stabilize the situation, in particular, to regain control over Ocheretyne. To do so, additional forces and resources have been deployed from the reserve," he said. Earlier, Voloshyn stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces controlled two-thirds of the villages of Ocheretyne and Soloviove.

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The first hit is not a dud, UKR fires a round to make humans hit the ground, making them a bigger target.

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I wonder if the first round was a dummy/decoy round intended to catch any air defense rounds fired at them!

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I think the so-called 'dud' is the missile body hitting after it does a high altitude deployment of the submunitions.

Hope we can see lots of similar videos soon.

I don't know if that was a dud or the rocket body after dispensing it's munitions look like a pretty big explosion to be the rocket after dispensing could have been a dud but the Munitions inside went off when it hit still would do a huge amount of damage if it hit something

Thank you Sir. These are so long overdue - a costly delay. But ... seems accuracy + reliability is not what we came to expect from HIMARS. Perhaps that's partly why they were delayed.

Maybe not a dud, the cluster warhead ejects its 900 bomblettes above the ground and the main body of missile carries on to hit the ground before the small bombs do,

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The gathering of troops all took a smoke break at the exact same time.

A dud wouldn't surprise me. Most of the missiles sent so far date back to the 1990's. The US hasn't been supplying their latest stuff...yet.

I have to wonder if both sides deliberately choose not to use expensive SAM missiles on relatively cheap spotter drones. This is instead of it being a matter of them being incapable of shooting down the spotter drones.

One or two Atacms missiles were shot down. But the irony is that the submunitions fell to the ground anyway. The rod and fragmentation parts of anti-aircraft missiles cannot destroy the entire cargo carried by a missile with many bombs.

The circumference of the cluster of bomblets appears to be about 100m, and chances are most of the personnel in those circles were knocked out of the battle. What a nasty weapon!

The first hit is not a dud. Its the front part of the missile slamming into the dirt at mach 3. It breaks away to let the clusters muni out. It think what we see here is the M39A1 (ATACMS Block IA) Its a horrible weapon to use tbh. Dont like one bit. Tactical nukes are just one step away..

That is not a dud. It is the carrier vehicle impacting the ground. The trajectory and timing between its landing and the cluster impacts matches, and a fully "dud" cluster munition is a statistical improbability - if it was carrying any amount of explosives and fuel and missed or was intercepted, you will not see the characteristically black plume that quickly disperses. That is what happens on training bombs impacts, because while often supersonic in speed, they do not have any innate explosive potential. And completely expected to see the same from any heavy piece of metal hitting the ground really fast.

Thought I'd heard before that for cluster munitions on troops they prefer the troops be lying on the ground rather than standing so they'll first hit with a normal explosive and then follow it up a few seconds later with the cluster bomb. This fits well with what you've shown since the "dud" and first cluster bomb are in the area with the troops and that's the only area that received more than one strike.

Dud or one that has had the clusters removed for drone munitions and fired for effect?

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These are much more effective than DPICMs. There's no blind spot within the radius of the strike.

4 looks like it was just a miss to be fair

Requirement for advanced munitions is reportedly a shelf life of at least 10 - 20 years with only minor losses in reliability. However with 10 - 20 being the absolute minimum requirement, I would think that the industry standard is probably more like 20 - 30 years. Of course there will most definitely be a minor loss in reliability before the 20 - 30 years are over, as allowed by the requirements. It's safe to assume these cluster ATACMS in the clip are the same early 1990s batch we've seen pictures of. Reports say they're close to their max shelf life, which absolutely would make sense given the age of already beyond 30 years. With that in mind I think it's not that surprising to see a dud. What is surprising however is that the US isn't just freely giving away what is at its mac shelf life and hence up for dismantlement anyway. Giving away what needs to be dismantled soon is not only not costing anything, but actually *saving the US money* ... Meanwhile the original price tag of these is most likely taken into consideration and added to the stated value of the current "aid package", as well as subtracted from the recently approved total of $60b...

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The first one was probably to attract any anti-drone or aircraft missiles, so the others can get through to the target.

I saw someone say it wasn’t a dud but the empty rocket housing impacting at high speed, which if used at close range can still have fuel and explode on impact

Satellite imagery should reveal marshalling yards. The spotting drones may be for bomb assessment to determine if an immediate 2nd strike is needed

not dud...

I think the first impact was the main body. The bomblets take a few more seconds to hit the ground.

ATACMS designer way back: "Hear me out, canister shot, but on a missile!"

ISW says 116 soldiers killed in this attack, and one Himars was a dud.

Number 4 looked like a miss - but it sure did destroy an empty field. That's the issue with ATACMS - they're old and inaccurate with duds.

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Hopefully the russians will at some time understand that they all need to stay at least 150 km away from the front line.

The first may have been to get the Russians to instinctively lay in the prone. These type of cluster munitions are more effective with the troops laying down and presenting more surface to the air bursting munitions.

0:05 an Idea, could it be that the first one is a practice version sent in first to attract possible AA fire and there by make it more likely the other ATACMS would get trough?

You would think they would hit the troops first for maximum effect. When the first one landed everyone would have been diving for cover.

Is it conceivable that the first impact could be something like a decoy or electronic jamming device? Perhaps also to obtain telemetric data and countermeasures? Just the thoughts of a relative layman.... Thank you for the *exzellent vid* , like usualy !