![]() ![]() Sergey Voronkov/Ukrainian military // Wikimedia Commonsįinally, just a few months prior to Russia’s invasion, official firing trials were held, demonstrating a capacity to hit targets up to 26 miles away and exceeding expectations. ![]() Note the need to manually load and ram the gun’s, each of which typically weighs around 45 pounds. As that was not an option, Ukraine needed to find more modern howitzers that could use NATO-standard 155-millimeter shells and could be sourced from more sympathetic countries.īohdana being tested in May 2021. Inconveniently, the obvious place to get more 152-millimeter artillery and ammo was Russia-Ukraine’s primary security threat. Furthermore, Ukraine has been in possession of comparatively small numbers of longer-distance self-propelled howitzers like the modern 2S19 Msta-S (around 35 pre-war) and the older 2S5 Gigantsit-S and 2S7 Pion (around 18 and 13 in pre-war service) that could strike regular enemy artillery from beyond easy retaliatory range and quickly reposition. NurPhoto // Getty Imagesīut Ukraine’s stock of Soviet 152-millimeter howitzer shells-and their capacity to build more-has fallen far short of what was needed. The 2S3 has a maximum range of 11.5 miles using regular shells. Ukrainian 2S3 Acacia 152-millimeter self-propelled howitzer on parade in Kyiv in 2018. ![]()
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