Ukrainian Forces Get Crash Course on Javelin Missiles from U.S. Volunteers – WSJ

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine An American trainer known to his Ukrainian students simply as Texas carefully drew on a school blackboard the outline of a Russian T-72 tank and a plan of the surrounding area, and explained how he had ambushed it with a Javelin missile earlier this month.

Then he picked up the missile and its charcoal-grey command launch unit, or CLU, showing to a few dozen Ukrainian soldiers the correct firing positions. Another U.S. trainer, Mark Hayward, a 53-year-old retired U.S. Special Forces operator from Alaska, stepped in with advice on how to operate the antitank weapon in varying weather and light conditions.

I know you are all infantrymen, but with this, you need to behave like snipers. Play spy games, said Texas, a Ukrainian-born American whose real first name is Anton and who didn t want to disclose his surname because his relatives still reside in Ukraine. Everything is in your hands; 90% of the success depends on you, the operators, and only 10% on the missile.

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