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Kiev forces have begun using Israeli cluster mortar rounds against the Russian military, according to a photo that surfaced online on April 4.
The photo shows two Ukrainian soldiers loading an Israeli-made M971 fin-stabilized, cargo carrier mortar round into a Soviet-made 2B11 towed 120 mm mortar cannon. It’s still unknown when or where the photo was taken.
Click to see full-size image. Via Twitter.
The M971 mortar round was jointly developed by Israel Military Industries (IMI) and the Swiss aerospace engineering and defense company RUAG.
The round can carry as many as 32 M87 dual purpose [anti-personnel/anti-armor] submunitions. Each bomblet can penetrate up to 105 mm of steel and releases 1200 preformatted fragments. The bomblets are equipped with dual-action self-destruct fuses to minimize hazardous duds.
According to IMI, a single M971 mortar round can create a lethality area of 100×100 meters. Cluster shells are considered dangerous particularly to civilian populations, as undetonated elements effectively become landmines. Self-destruct fuses do not always work.
Kiev forces received loads of weapons, including landmines and cluster munitions, from NATO states and other allies after the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine last year.
Despite being a close ally of NATO, Israel has so far refrained from directly supplying weapons to Ukraine or publicly allowing any of its defense customers to transfer Israeli-made weapons to the country. However, it did annonce providing non-lethal military equipment to Kiev forces on multiple occasions.
The M971 is not the first Israeli weapon to be spotted with Kiev forces. Israeli-made armored vehicles and anti-drone systems made their way to Ukraine in the past via third countries. The cluster mortar rounds were likely supplied in a similar way.
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The days of the US Dollar imperialism and dictatorship is counted. The Global South has spoken. We support Russia! Countries should trade in their own currencies.
I would never trust khazars. First thing. Second, there is no real Israel state, only modern Khazaria. Lies, deception and the double standards are theirs inventions from ages. Third, most of the highly dangerous russian 5 column is made from khazars. They are peoples of Satan chosen by Lucifer to fight against real jews, peoples of GOD.
P.S. All the 3 romanian high profile leaders who made and signed the traitorous 1997 Treaty with Kukrainii, ceding the historic romanian territories to Kiev are khazars.
Many east European countries had Bolshevik leaders willing to create provinces with autonomy and secede territory created on the back of national strife. Just look what the Bolsheviks created Ukraine as a staging against Russia and also 1800s conquer ed territory giving back to finland to be used to host anti russian Nato. This plan has been in motion since the October revolution.
Those territories you are talking about are Hungarian ones. There are no country “Romania”, it was only Wallachia.
After all, there is no such thing as “Hungary” but it is called “Magyaroszag”. Hungarians are not really descendants of Huns, like they proclaim but descandants of Iazyges. Bosnian dialect is a Serbian dialect, this is also a fact. Bosniaks just betrayed their Serbo-Croatian compatriots. Also, Macedonia is Greek and those so called “Macedonians” are Vardaskans, a Bulgarian tribe.
However, despite the past mistakes, Hungarians and Bulgarians are acting very good at the moment. There is hope in these two nations.
Israel is arming banderites with banned weapons.Time for Russia to retort in Syria. Targeting in self defense against IAF hostile aircraft while they’re conducting illegal unprovoked air strikes in Syria would be a start.
You mean because the big nose tribe (with their evangelical trailer trash Americunt supporters) predictably stabbed Russia in the back, like they have been doing for years, only NOW must Russia allow its ally to strike them? Were Syrian lives not worth it before? Fuck Putinyahoo, the enabler of Zionist fascism.
What Zionist fascism? Radical revisionists are minority and Kahanists are outlawed. On the other hand, radical Palestinian factions, whether communist or jihadists, are free to create chaos and terrorism.
Russia should start using napalm bombs
I advocate that for so many yearaaaas.
Commies were used to be attacked with napalm bombs.
So what? Ukraine is allowed to fight back. If we wanted to we could have provide our brothers more, but is to our shame we did not yet provide them our best lethal weapons to fight the Russia terror. And now we are distracted too much by internal issues, so this is least we can provide our brothers. I hope they rain on Russia terror forces.
Ashknzmn, oh honey, I miss yo dick so much!
Banderists are anti-Jewish as hell.
The shape-shifters could not resist the smell of easy money, that is their weakness and it will be their undoing
I hope Russia sells kinzhals to Iran.
Rus by mal za toto dať Židovi za vyučenú v Sýrii!!! Inak sa takéto nepriateľské kroky budú stále opakovať a bude sa to iba stupňovať, keď budú ostatní vidieť, že RF nič s tým nerobí!!! Tak isto by mali pomôcť Sýrii konečne už vyhnať teroristov z USA!!!
The khaZar abomination in apartheid occupied Palestine must and indeed will be destroyed. First the ongoing defeat of deranged perverted Golem USSA, the flushing of its USeless scrip and then the destruction of the juice sewer in Palestine.
Karma is beautiful and comes to each and all.