Ukraine's Newest Howitzer Is an Antique

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OH my goodness… I was in a 101 battery in the Marines in 1973-75. Our guns were manufactured in 1954… These are nothing to sneeze at… They will shoot five to seven miles now 10 or more…and can scoot… Back then we would drop em, fire, pick em up and move fast… That is even more important now days… Still shooting after 80 years? Amazing weapon.

I trained on these guns fifty years ago. I'm sure we were a lot quicker than three minutes in and out of action. Get in position. Get the job done quickly, then get out of now.

they look well taken care of

I noticed the recoil on the gun in the Viet Nam era footage vs the Ukranian/Lithuanian footage, the former seems to have much less recoil. The gun does not recoil as far in the earlier one vs the current one. I assume that is because of "hotter" modern ammo?

There is a mobile 105mm that is called HAWK….fast and mobile……and is much better than 80mm mortar,

Next up the german military shall give First World War era howitzers 🙂

if you were being shelled, you wouldnt think "oh is that slightly older then modern arty?"

I served on these just prior to their replacement coming into USMC inventory. This is not a good display of their potential.

Their strength was the weight of fire they could throw because of their rate of fire. Usually it was three (gunner, a-gunner, and loader) on the weapon and at least two more as part of an ammunition chain. A very good crew could easily throw four shots out in ten seconds.

So…either Ukraine is really short on gunners, they're scared these old tubes will blow up, or they're stuck in old Soviet doctrine…more guns, less crew.

105mm and 155mm might sound like a large difference but regardless of if your a dude in a trench with a helmet and body armor or sitting in an AFV no one wants to get hit by indirect regardless of size

“… One-oh-five is the name of my fame…”

From the poem, “Oh Gun.”

1:20 It appears Uncle Sam forgot to include this training video with the howitzers, and the Ukrainians do the job of eight with just three. Probably at twice the speed too.

We, the Russians, use WW2 howitzers D-1 as well in order to save the barrels of newer artillery pieces. In a war this expencive, you have to be frugal.

US and nato claims to have send tens of billions of military aid since the start of the war,but how much of it in actual equipment value actually reaches the ukranians? majority of the funds probably disappeared into some black hole somewhere while nato countries dump their cold war antiques on ukraine pretending to "support" the war effort…….what a joke.

if this was one of the precious G7 countries fighting russia,i can guarantee u, US and allies wont be sending their 50 year old garbage. everything would be top of the line, most advanced and top dollar equipment…….only the best of the best…….
norway would probably be sending their archer artillery systems…….

remember when israeli were almost defeated by the arabs in yom kippur war? america immediately sent hundreds of her latest battle tanks and fighter jets to israel….and missiles and apcs and whatnot….they sure as hell did not send wwii biplanes or captured german wwii equipment.

Each country has old stock weapons, just send it to Ukrain together with modern ones . It helps Ukrain has enough weapon for long time war.