The biggest reason why the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has continued to the present is that the United States and the West have been sending a large number of advanced weapons and financial support to Ukraine. The strength of the Ukrainian army has been blessed to a certain extent, and at the same time, it has also caused huge casualties and losses to the Russian army. Especially since this period of time, with the obvious defeat of the Ukrainian army and the continuous loss of a number of strategic points, the United States and the West have begun to go more and more excessive, ignoring Putin's warnings, and openly sending various high-end weapons to the Ukrainian army, such as anti-ship missiles, air defense systems, rocket artillery systems, howitzers, and so on.
It is worth mentioning that the U.S. M142 Haimas rocket launcher, since the Ukrainian army got its hands on it, has frequently pulled out and fired, raiding important military bases such as Russian logistics units, ammunition depots, command centers, etc., and has hit more than 30 ammunition depots and fuel depots of the Russian army in the past 20 days. No less than 100 casualties were inflicted, many of them ordinary Ukrainians, and there were children on the casualty list. So why didn't the Russians directly destroy the "Hippos"? Because it is too cunning, it will run when it is finished.
But no matter how cunning the "Sea horse" was, it was destroyed by the Russian army. According to Russian media releases, on the 17th, the Russian army launched a land-based cruise missile in Krasno-Armesk, which successfully hit the Ukrainian army's "Haimas" rocket and its transport vehicles. At present, the United States has supported the 12 "Sea Horses" of the Ukrainian army, which looks like a small number, but it is quite a headache for the Russian army. Because of the weapon's high maneuverability and strike accuracy.
"Haimas", is a wheeled 6-tube self-propelled rocket launcher, composed of advanced fire control system and automatic loading device, installed in the chassis of the vehicle launcher, can be equipped with 6 ordinary rockets at a time, can also directly launch a tactical missile, the range of up to 300 kilometers. Compared with the same type of rocket artillery, its combat and withdrawal time is very short, and it truly realizes "running after fighting". Generally, the aiming strike mission can be completed within 30 seconds, and if it is a howitzer, it will take at least 12 minutes.
If you just fired the shell, it would be 6 seconds away. And with a full amount of oil, the "Sea horse" can run 480 kilometers at a time, with a speed of up to 86 kilometers per hour, and can stop fighting at any time, and then immediately after the fight, it will slip away. On the opponent's side, it had just been bombed by a sneak attack, and before it could react, "Sea horse" had already run far. So air defense systems are very difficult to lock it on.
But there is no weapon in the world that cannot be defeated, and over time, the Russian army can naturally find its laws. After all, Russia's drones and early warning aircraft are not vegetarian, and once they find a target, they directly use high-precision missiles to attack. This time, the Russian army said that the destroyed "Haimas" was located in a farm, which was detected by the Russian army in advance and successfully hit.