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The 2A65 "Msta-B" (named from the Msta River) is a Soviet towed 152.4 mm howitzer.The "B" in the designation is an abbreviation for Buksiruyemaya, which means towed.This weapon has been fielded in Soviet forces since at least 1987 and as of 2022 is currently in service with Russian front and army level artillery units, as well as the militaries of six other countries, most of them former ...
The clip showed an entrenched Russian crew firing an old, towed artillery system against Ukrainian positions in Donetsk. The field gun featured: a D-74 122 mm howitzer, which the Soviet Union ...
The 152 mm gun-howitzer M1955, also known as the D-20, (Russian: 152-мм пушка-гаубица Д-20 обр. 1955 г.) is a manually loaded, towed 152 mm gun-howitzer artillery piece, manufactured in the Soviet Union during the 1950s. It was first observed by the West in 1955, at which time it was designated the M1955.
A towed and a self-propelled version (2S5 Giatsint-S) were developed. [3] In early 1971 two prototypes of the 2A36 were built, with mass production starting in 1976, and in that same year Western intelligence designated the towed gun as the 152 mm gun M1976 until its correct Russian designation became known. It was first seen in public during a ...
The 122 mm (4.8 in) (originally 48 lines) calibre was adopted by Russia in the early 20th century, becoming very important to Soviet artillery during the Second World War. Development of the D-30 began in the 1950s, as a replacement for the M-30 howitzer , widely used in divisional and regimental artilleries.
A second "duplex" artillery system was subsequently designed by FF Petrov's design bureau at Artillery Factory No 9. This comprised a 122 mm gun and a 152 mm howitzer . The D-74 122 mm field gun was a competitor to the M-46; and while many were produced, the M-46 became the only long range gun in Soviet service until new 152 mm guns were made ...
The Akatsiya can fire OF-540 and OF-25 high-explosive fragmenting (HE-Frag) 43.56 kg projectiles (also all types of rounds developed for 152.4 mm towed howitzer-guns ML-20 and D-20, and for towed howitzer D-1) at a maximum range of 18.5 km depending on used charge or rocket-assisted projectiles (RAP) to a maximum of 24 km.
BREAKING: Several large Russian weapons depots destroyed in Ukrainian drone swarm strikes a few hours ago.This video shows the weapons depot storing North Korean artillery shells exploding in ...