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US Cluster ATACMS Could Be on Ukraine Battlefields 'Next Week': Ex-Adviser
kraine this week will get the green light to receive long-range U.S.-produced cluster munition rockets, according to an American campaigner central to Kyiv's missile push who has framed the weapons as a game changer for the Ukrainian war effort.
Dan Rice, a former U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate, previously served as a special adviser to Ukrainian commander-in-chief General Valery Zaluzhnyi, advising on the American weapons that could help turn the tide against Russia's full-scale invasion, which began February 24, 2022.
Instrumental in the White House decision to send 155mm, tube-fired dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM) to Ukraine earlier this year, Rice has since been pushing for the supply of longer-range cluster munition rockets to be fired by Ukraine's U.S.-made M142 High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and other platforms.
Long-awaited approval for DPICM rockets with ranges to just over 100 miles, Rice told Newsweek on Monday, appears imminent, as the White House edges closer to finally lifting its block on supplying the long-range MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System—known as the ATACMS—to Kyiv.

"Approval is likely this week on HIMARS cluster rockets," Rice—who is now the president of the American University Kyiv—said, citing conversations with "the American decision makers and the Americans who have to implement getting them to Ukraine" as the basis for his prediction. "I'm telling the Ukrainians.
"Getting approval this week for HIMARS DPICM will be a game changer," Rice said. "And with no training and change needed, it will likely be on the battlefield next week, making a huge difference. When those rockets launch, they break the sound barrier. To me, that's the sound of freedom."
https://www.newsweek.com/us-cluster-atacms-ukraine-battlefields-next-week-ex-adviser-dan-rice-himars-dcipm-1829554