KUPIANSK, UKRAINE – FEBRUARY 24: Destroyed Russian tanks are seen in Kupiansk, Ukraine on February … [+] 24, 2023. Kupiansk has been one of the hardest hit areas in the last weeks of the w...
Tag: Artillery
China May Provide Artillery And Drones To Russia—Despite Public Calls For Peace Deal
Topline China is considering supplying Russian military forces with drones and artillery in its war with Ukraine, multiple outlets reported Friday on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of U...
Smashed By Ukrainian Mines And Artillery, Russia’s Winter Offensive Just Ground To A Halt Outside Vuhledar
Russian armor outside Vuhledar. Ukrainian army capture Russia’s widely-anticipated winter offensive has begun. Aiming to extend its control over eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, Russian troops are att...
Ukraine Uses Camouflage Nets To Snare Russian Drones Attacking Its Artillery
VERKHNOTORETSKE, DONETSK, UKRAINE – 2021/12/27: Ukrainian army vehicle seen under the masking net in … [+] the Verkhnotoretske village that is situated on the very frontline between Ukrain...
Russians Claim To Develop Smartphone App To Locate Ukrainian Artillery
The Russian military has developed software for networked smartphones to locate Ukrainian artillery, reviving a technology first used over a century ago in WW1. Artillery duels have become an importan...
The U.K. Is Giving Ukraine Lots of Artillery. Now The British Army Can Get Newer And Better Guns.
A British Army AS-90. Crown Copyright The British Army’s artillery corps was in pretty bad shape before Russia widened its war on Ukraine starting 11 months ago. Its guns and launchers were too few in...
Ukraine’s New Swedish Howitzer Can Hit The Russians With Three Shells At A Time—And Drive Away Before The Salvo Lands
Archer. Wikimedia Commons In the 11 months since Russia widened its war on Ukraine, Kyiv’s allies have donated a dizzying array of artillery—no fewer than 700 towed and self-propelled howitzers of fou...
The Decline Of Russian Artillery In The Ukraine War
Commonly dubbed the “King of Battle,” artillery is a critical asset to any military. Indeed, modern warfare leverages the destructive nature of artillery to shape the battlefield from extended ranges....
New Ukraine Howitzers Make Headlines, While The M-109 Gun Toils In Obscurity
An M109 self propelled 155mm gun fires in Ukraine Getty Images In Ukraine, America’s humble M-109 howitzer isn’t getting much attention. Overshadowed by more modern self-propelled guns, the M-109 is a...
Ukraine’s Artillery Did The Most Killing Around Kyiv, Ultimately Saving The City From Russian Occupation
A Ukrainian army 2S7 howitzer in action. Ukrainian army photo The Russian army’s plan, in the early hours of its wider invasion of Ukraine back in February, was to roll straight from Belarus and south...
Russia Has More Artillery Than Ukraine. But Russian Gunners Have A Bad Habit Of Shelling … Nothing.
A Ukrainian army 2S7 howitzer in action. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Despite a deluge of Western support for Ukraine over the 10 months of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, the Russian army still ha...
In Eight Years, Russian Agents Blew Up 210,000 Tons Of Ukrainian Ammo—And Nearly Silenced Kyiv’s Artillery
Ukrainian defense ministry photo Russia hasn’t done a lot right in its 10-month-old wider war on Ukraine. But it did at least one thing right before the war. A systematic Russian sabotage campaign tar...
Anticipating A Russian Attack, The Ukrainian Army Doubled Its Artillery
A Ukrainian army BM-21 rocket-launcher. Ukrainian defense ministry photo In Soviet ground-warfare doctrine, which both the Ukrainian and Russian armies largely still follow, artillery is the decisive ...
Anticipating A Russian Attack, The Ukrainian Army Trained Its Tank Crews To Fight Like Artillery
Ukrainian army 17th Tank Brigade. Ukrainian army photo Ukraine’s tank corps wasn’t ready for the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014. The Ukrainian army’s two tank brigades and 10 mechanized b...
Ukraine’s World War II-Vintage Howitzers Still Work Just Fine
A Ukrainian M101 in action. Ukrainian defense ministry The Ukrainian army’s newest howitzers also are among its oldest. On Sunday, the first video appeared online depicting ex-Lithuanian M101 howitzer...
New British Brimstone 2 Missiles Are Bad News For Russian Tanks, Artillery, Air Defense, Command Posts…
The UK has been supplying Ukraine with Brimstone missiles since April. Yesterday the UK Ministry of Defence officially confirmed what was being unofficially claimed based on imagery, that Ukraine is r...
Russia’s High-Tech Artillery System Was Supposed To Win The War In Ukraine. But Troops Didn’t Know How To Use It.
Ukrainian troops capture a Russian 2S19 howitzer in March 2022. Via social media The Russian army spent decades and billions of dollars building what should be the world’s most fearsome artillery fire...
Easily In Range Of Ukrainian Artillery, Kherson’s Airport Was A Death Trap For Russian Troops
Chornobaivka Airport burns on March 16, 2022. Maxar Three days after the Kremlin ordered its starving, battered forces to retreat from the right bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine’s Kherson ...
Ukraine’s Drones Are Back—And Blowing Up Russian Artillery In The South
A Ukrainian TB-2. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Ukraine’s Turkish-made drones are blowing up Russian equipment in southern Ukraine, helping to clear a path for Ukrainian battalions as they fight their w...
Ukrainian Forces Photobombed Russian Mercenaries—With Rockets
US M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers fire salvoes during the “African … [+] Lion” military exercise in the Grier Labouihi region in southeastern Morocco o...
Taiwan Carries Out Artillery Firing Drills Amid Chinese Military War Games
Topline Taiwan’s military carried out artillery firing drills in its southernmost region on Tuesday in response to China’s unprecedented live fire exercises around the island which had been sche...
Russia Claims Ukraine Killed Its Own POWs—Here’s Why Few Believe It
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – In this photo taken from video a view of destroyed barrack at a prison … [+] in Olenivka, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces, eastern Ukr...
In Southern Ukraine, Kyiv’s Artillery Drops Bridges And Isolates A Whole Russian Army
Russian supply dumps burn near Kherson. Photo via social media The 49th Combined Arms Army is the main Russian force in southern Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast. That makes it the Ukrainian army’s main targe...
With German Howitzers And German Radars, Ukraine Is Building A Machine For Blowing Up Russian Guns
German army photo The German government has given arms-maker Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. the green light to manufacture a hundred PzH-2000 self-propelled howitzers for the Ukrainian army as p...
Russia’s Artillery Is Wearing Out, And Blowing Up
A Russian army 2S7 howitzer after a barrel-failure. Photo via social media Russian artillery batteries in Ukraine appear to be running low on ammunition as Ukrainian rockets blow up more and more supp...
There’s A Good Reason Russia’s Artillery Is Running Out Of Ammo. Ukraine Keeps Blowing It Up.
A Russian ammo dump burns near Kherson. Photo via social media Russian artillery is falling quiet in Donbas, if observations by NASA’s fire-detecting satellites are any indication. Well, quieter. Batt...
Russia Sends Pacific Island ‘Machine Gun Artillery Division’ To Ukraine
DATELINE ADDITION – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev walks near a Soviet-era fortifications during … [+] his visit to Kunashir one of the Kuril islands on November 1, 2010. Medvedev stoke...
Video Shows First Kill By Ukraine’s Anti-Tank Artillery Round
A video shared on social media on Saturday shows an unusual weapon taking out a Russian vehicle, striking downwards at incredible speed and triggering an explosion inside. Close examination suggests t...
U.S. Giving Ukraine $1 Billion Military Aid Package Including Artillery, Anti-Ship Missiles
Topline President Joe Biden announced Wednesday the U.S. will send Ukraine $1 billion in additional military aid, including anti-ship systems, artillery rockets and ammunition. TOPSHOT – Members...
This Old Ukrainian Howitzer Got Captured Then Recaptured
A recaptured 2S3. Via social media. As Russia’s wider war in Ukraine grinds into its fourth month, some weaponry has changed hands more than once. Captured then recaptured. Some of the first evidence ...