MOSCOW ($1=60.48 Russian Rubles) — The Russian military acquired the primary modernized Msta-S self-propelled howitzers. The UralTransMash plant situated in Yekaterinburg made the supply on August 29. The brand new modernized self-propelled artillery weapons are going to Ukraine. They need to reinforce the Russian artillery forces.
The Ministry of Protection of the Russian Federation introduced that the supply from UralTransMash was accomplished forward of schedule. The Russian firm in Yekaterinburg introduced what they repaired. “A significant overhaul of the 2С19 Msta-S self-propelled artillery installations was carried out, in addition to artillery modernization processes have been carried out,” the corporate introduced to a supply at BulgarianMilitary.com.
The modernization included the mixing of a brand new automated hearth steering and management system. All of the items have been repaired, as was the overhaul of the chassis of the self-propelled howitzers.
BulgarianMilitary.com has a video of a departing UralTransMash self-propelled howitzer Msta-S loaded onto a tow truck.
The final supply was on August third
As we reported on August 4, Russia despatched dozens of armored autos and 155mm Msta-S self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine. A resident of the Crimean Peninsula posted a video on a Telegram channel. The practice crosses the Crimean bridge and enters the territory of Ukraine.
The video was posted on Telegram yesterday, with the consumer claiming it was filmed on the identical day – August third. Sources declare that the transported self-propelled howitzers are going to Kherson to stabilize the protection line. Different sources declare that Russia is getting ready to resume its offensive into Ukraine – past the protection line in Kherson.
Msta-S is a killing machine – Belgium
On July 5 the Belgian on-line portal Army Recognition analyzes the Russian Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, stating that this self-propelled gun is the Russian nightmare for Ukraine. In response to the Belgian authors, it’s this Soviet-era self-propelled howitzer that’s the spine of Russian artillery within the struggle with Ukraine.
The Msta-S is a 152.4mm self-propelled howitzer developed within the Eighties and entered service of their area. The howitzer has documented participation in a number of conflicts, principally regional to the Russian Federation, such because the Second Chechen Conflict, the Conflict in Donbas, the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh battle, and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The howitzer weighs 42 tons. Relying on the kind of ammunition, it could actually hearth as much as 10 rounds per minute. The utmost vary can attain as much as 28 km.
The cannon and the shells
The Msta-S is armed with the 152mm 2A65 gun, which word is the primary gun of the towed howitzer of the identical Msta-B collection. This gun, even in a towed howitzer model, can hearth a laser-guided artillery projectile.
There’s a documented case in Ukraine. On April 29, BulgarianMilitary.com reported that through the siege of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, a Ukrainian tank was actually shattered by a laser-guided artillery projectile – 2K25 Krasnopol. Besides in Ukraine 2K25 Krasnopol continues for use within the struggle in Syria. This artillery shell is in service in Russia, Syria, Ukraine, Algeria, China, and India.
2K25 Krasnopol weighs 50 kg and along with 152 mm caliber, a 155 mm caliber variant can be produced. The operational vary is from 20 to 25 km and makes use of the HE warhead.
2K25 Krasnopol artillery shells are fired primarily from Soviet self-propelled howitzers such because the 2S3 Akatsiya and 2S19 Msta-S and meant to have interaction small floor targets resembling tanks, different direct-fire weapons, strong-points, or different important level targets seen to the observer. It may be used in opposition to each stationary and transferring targets [providing these remain within the observer’s field of view].
Autonomous capabilities
Laser-guided artillery shells are solely harmful if they’re accurately aimed and the goal is accurately situated. It’s the focusing on of the 152mm Msta-S self-propelled howitzer that’s the different key consider its wonderful efficiency. However this isn’t about the usual tools of a Soviet self-propelled howitzer, which on no account differs from different kinds of howitzers.
It’s about its autonomy. Sure, you learn that proper. Regardless of its Soviet-era design, the 152mm Msta-S self-propelled howitzer has lately undergone some main updates and gained the flexibility to function on the battlefield along side a drone.
In Could of final yr, BulgarianMilitary.com wrote that in an illustration in entrance of representatives of the Russian authorities and overseas prospects, the Russian Orlan-10E drone took off, detected the goal, marked it, and returned the mandatory coordinates to the self-propelled howitzer. All pictures fired have been profitable hits. Furthermore, the Russian gunners used new ammunition, which elevated the vary of the self-propelled howitzer to 40 km.
The amount
Thus, we come to the third key issue within the effectiveness of the 152mm Msta-S within the struggle in Ukraine. The amount. In response to knowledge from open sources, the Soviet Union produced about 1,100 items in varied variants and configurations of the self-propelled howitzer. Army Recognition reviews that the Russian Army has at the least 500 operational self-propelled howitzers in its stock, together with 2S19/2S19M1 Msta-S and 320 2S19M2/2S33 Msta-SM.
Thus, by means of using extended-range and laser-guided projectiles, the flexibility to focus on autonomously with a reconnaissance drone, and the quantity [as yet unknown] despatched to the Ukrainian entrance, the 152mm Msta-S is a extremely efficient killing machine.
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