All You Need To Know About US Ballistic Missiles

The US has for the first time authorized Ukraine to use its ballistic missiles to carry out attacks inside Russia

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Known as Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, it's expected to be first used in western Russia's Kursk region

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Made by Lockheed Martin, the ATACMS are short-range ballistic missiles

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Depending upon the model, it has the capability to strike targets 190 miles away with a warhead containing around 375 pounds of explosives

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These ballistic missiles can fly way higher into the atmosphere compared to artillery rockets and even farther

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It comes down to the ground at a very high speed due to the gravitational pull, a report said

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They can be easily fired with the help of the HIMARS mobile launchers or older M270 launchers

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Developed in the 1980s to target Soviet targets, the ATACMS missile was made as a rare guided weapon when the US heavily relied on "dumb bombs"

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