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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"