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#Ukraine: Recommending ATACMS and main battle tanks for the front. @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD_CMPP @FDD

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

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#Ukraine: Recommending ATACMS and main battle tanks for the front. @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD_CMPP @FDD


https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/02/20/bidens-latest-weak-excuse-not-sending-atacms-ukraine/
Bradley Bowman serves as senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he focuses on U.S. defense strategy and policy. He has served as a national security advisor to members of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, as well as an active duty U.S. Army officer, Black Hawk pilot, and assistant professor at West Point. @Brad_L_Bowman @FDD_CMPP @FDD

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:07.0

Here's John Bacheler.

0:10.0

Ukraine conflict. The President of the United States traveling the

0:13.5

Kiev boldly and bravely traveling the Warsaw to make a very clear speech that Ukraine is

0:20.0

to be supported by NATO indefinitely until the win. And then meeting with the Bucharest

0:26.0

Nine, the nine frontline states once under Soviet boot now by Russian threat most concerned

0:33.2

that after Ukraine comes us. I welcome Bradley Bowman. Brad is the senior director of the

0:39.0

Center on Military and Political Power at the FDD. Former Senate Armed Forces Armed

0:45.2

Services and Foreign Relations Committee advisor as well as a active duty once upon a time

0:51.5

officer in the United States Army, a Black Hawk pilot and an assistant professor Westpoint.

0:56.9

So I call on the professor. Brad, Professor Bowman, I want to understand some technical

1:03.0

language here. What are ATAKMs? Because in a recent piece at FDD you and your colleagues

1:08.2

have called for ATAKMs in theater. Good evening to you, John. And thanks so much for

1:13.3

the opportunity to talk with you again. And thanks for the opportunity to talk about the

1:17.0

Army tactical missile system or ATAKMs. Actually, we've been calling for the Biden administration

1:22.2

to provide Ukraine the attack. I'm going back to last summer. So this has been something

1:26.7

we've been focused on for a long time to understand why it's so that would be so valuable to

1:31.8

Kiev. It's it's important to understand the missiles capabilities. This is a missile

1:35.6

that has a 500, depending what variant you're talking about and there's details here

1:38.9

in there. But generally speaking, it's a 500 pound warhead missile with a 300 kilometer

1:44.4

range. What Ukraine is using, what they have from the United States currently is the guide

1:50.3

in multiple launch rocket system missile that's being fired by the high Mars, the high mobility

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