It has been reported that about half of the western towed and self-propelled howitzers, which were dispatched to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and destroyed in the special military operations zone, were shot with Izdeliye-51/52 ammunition, also known as the Lancet. DEA NewsCiting an informed source.
According to him, the Lancets show high efficiency in the framework of a special operation and are currently one of the main tools in the fight against the battery.
“About 45% of the more than 100 towed howitzer and self-propelled artillery units produced by NATO countries destroyed in Ukraine since the beginning of this year have been hit specifically by kamikaze drones,” the source said.
He explained that he was mainly talking about M777 towed guns and M109 Paladin self-propelled guns delivered from Washington to Kiev.
The agency’s interlocutor also said that the use of Lancet unmanned aerial vehicles to destroy enemy artillery is effective both from a combat and economic point of view, because it usually takes one loaf of ammunition to destroy a howitzer.
Alexander Gordeev, former head of the press center of the Vostok group declarationHe said the Russian Lancet kamikaze drone destroyed a Polish Krab self-propelled artillery mount in the South Donetsk direction supplied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.