In the 1960s, the Soviet Union Developed an Amphibious Howitzer. June 7, 2021. By: Peter Suciu. Share. ... Even in Russia the Gvozdika has largely been replaced by the 152mm 2S19 MSTA, ...

WASHINGTON — The 155 mm howitzer round is one of the most requested artillery munitions of the war in Ukraine. Already the U.S. has shipped more than 1.5 million rounds to Ukraine, but Kyiv is ...

What does one do when the arsenal of a superpower is running on thin lines while the allies are under attack? The recent back-and-forth in US policy towards equipping Ukraine has revealed not just the ...

A member of the Ukrainian forces stands by artillery shells for a Soviet era-captured Russian 152mm howitzer “Msta-B” in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on March 28. (Heidi Levine/for ...

The field gun featured: a D-74 122 mm howitzer, which the Soviet Union developed in the late 1940s. Yet its age wasn't the main attraction. Russia has, after all, been regularly deploying Cold War ...

Ukrainian servicemen with the 24th Mechanized Brigade fire a Soviet 152mm self-propelled howitzer toward an enemy position on December 3, 2022, in Bakhmut, Ukraine.

And with lots and lots of M-109s pouring in to support Ukraine’s existing fleet of Soviet-era 152mm self-propelled guns, Ukraine can start shifting over to offense, using their new artillery ...

In 2019, the Virginia Army National Guard conducted what was described as an extremely unusual artillery exercise that involved the firing of a 105mm M118 howitzer from on board a U.S. Army ...

The tracked, open-hull howitzer and its accompanying support vehicle entered service with the Soviet army in 1976. The type saw combat in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the Chechen wars in the ‘90s.

The four-man team used to operate a Soviet-era Msta-S howitzer and they say the new Polish-built Krab is faster, easier to operate, and more accurate. Accessibility links.