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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 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.
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 ...
Towed artillery. M48 76 mm mountain gun; GIAT LG1 mk.II 105 mm light howitzer; M2A1 105 mm towed howitzer; KH178 105 mm towed howitzer; M1938 (M-30) 122 mm towed howitzer; FH-2000 155 mm towed howitzer; KH179 155 mm towed howitzer; Self-propelled artillery. AMX Mk61 105 mm self-propelled howitzer; CAESAR 155 mm self-propelled howitzer
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 D-30 was designed by the well established design bureau at Artillery Plant No 9 in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), at the time led by the eminent artillery designer Fëdor Fëdorovich Petrov (1902–1978). This team was responsible for designing the earlier M-30, the post-war 152 mm D-20 gun-howitzer, and other guns.
2022 video of the inside of a Msta-S during the Russian invasion of Ukraine Msta-S at the 2013 tank biathlon A Russian 2S19 Msta-S that was damaged in 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on display at the military park of the army museum in Białystok, Poland, in 2023 2S19 Msta-S of the Ukrainian 26th Artillery Brigade
The KS-19 is a towed anti-aircraft gun that was specifically designed to excel in ground combat, particularly against armored targets and as artillery. [3] Due to its towed nature, it requires an external means of mobility, typically an AT-S Medium or AT-T Heavy tracked artillery tractor. [3]