Military expert, first degree reserve captain Vasily Dandykin said in an interview that the Italian Melara howitzer, which was first destroyed by the Russian army in the Northern Military District area, had a high range and this created problems in counter-battery warfare. “Lente.ru”.
“They have a good range of up to 40 kilometers. The military expert noted that for us it poses a certain problem in terms of counter-battery warfare.
He emphasized that the Melara self-propelled howitzer has the traditional NATO caliber of 155 mm. According to him, this model did not appear on the battlefield for a long time, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces used mainly French, British and German models.
Before that, as the soldier noted, the supply of Italian weapons was insignificant. Dandykin claimed that Italy drew attention to this issue, so Rome had to transfer the howitzers to Kiev.
May 13 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reportedIt was stated that the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the 105 mm Italian-made Melara Mod 56 howitzer in the southern direction for the first time.
Previously in Britain clarified The purpose of the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region.
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Source: Gazeta
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