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24jun22
Russia's 200 Year-Old 'Artillery First' Doctrine That Devastated Ukraine Even Outranges & Outguns US Systems
Poland's sale of its 155 mm Krab Self Propelled Howitzer (SPH) to Ukraine to make up for what has emerged as Kiev's weakness, and the Russian strength in artillery systems, has bared the weapon's centrality to the Russian military doctrine.
With the Krab SPH, Ukraine can use five different 155 mm artillery howitzers.
These include the US-made M-777 lightweight howitzer, Estonian FH70, French Caesar SPH, and Norwegian M109A3 SPH. Ukrainian personnel is also training on the German PzH-2000.
This is not to mention the M-142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) that the US has offered Ukraine.
Something that might save harrowed Ukrainian soldiers who are dying by the "100s" each day, as per President Volodymyr Zelensky, will, however, be without a 300-kilometer range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS).
US President Joe Biden doesn't want to arm the Ukrainians with weapons that can hit deep inside Russia and might indirectly escalate the war and draw the US.
But if it is artillery for the Ukrainians to turn around the war we are talking about, we should also talk about the artillery used by the Russians that has inflicted a sorry state of battlefield affairs in the first place.
[Source: By Parth Satam, The EurAsian Times, New Delhi, 24Jun22]
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