The 15th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment’s artillery exercise with 2S19 and 2S19M1 Msta-S. 25 March 2020. Source: the Russian Ministry of Defense (shorturl.at/rIT25).
On November 25, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a video report revealing some details on the operations of Msta-S self-propelled 152 mm howitzers during the special military operation in Ukraine.
The Msta has a maximum firing range of 25 kilometers with base bleed rounds and up to 29 kilometers with rocket-assisted rounds. It can also fire the laser-guided 2K25 Krasnopol round, which has a range of 20-25 kilometers. The howitzer can fire up to ten rounds per minute.
The vehicle of the howitzer is based on the T-80 tank hull, but is powered by the T-72’s diesel engine. It has an operational range of 500 kilometers and a maximum speed of 60 kilometers per hour.
In the video report, a battery senior officer with the call sign “Metallurgist” explained the work of Msta-S howitzers in Ukraine.
“The primary mission is to hit and destroy enemy artillery guns. Presently, our basic task is [also] to conduct counter-battery warfare and we operate with a roving 2S19M2 [Msta-S] gun. We strike both enemy small-caliber hardware like pickup trucks and heavy materiel like infantry fighting vehicles and tanks. The most effective result is the destruction of three tanks in a 24-hour duty shift,” the officer said.
According to the Russian MoD, Msta-S self-propelled howitzer batteries changes their position after each strike on enemy targets.
“In their combat mission, artillery squads of the Central Military District follow the principle: (one target – one position). This denies the adversary the opportunity to deliver a directed retaliatory strike. Owing to the trajectory of the shells, the enemy reveals the weapon emplacement that has already been abandoned by artillery teams,” the ministry explained.
Around 760 Mata-S howitzers are reportedly in active service with the Russian military, more than 200 others are kept in storage. The self-propelled howitzer is still in mass production at Uraltransmash plants, thus more are being delivered on a regular basis.
The latest version of the howitzer, dubbed the Msta-SM2, is equipped with an automatic fire control system and a digital navigation system.
NATO states supplied Ukraine with hundreds of howitzers and multiple rocket launchers in the months that followed the start of the Russian special military operation. However, Kiev forces are still outgunned by the Russian artillery.
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I think the one in the photo is beginning to become tired and looks forward to the last NAZI
If we were in the front lines on active duty, we would look tired as well, :)
My favorite remains the Tyulpan heavy mortar… and the TOS-1, but Tyulpan is something special 😍
Yea, Tullips autopropulsed heavy mortar. Now Russia see it’s short-sighted military strategy= not enough Tullips for such a great ukroshit nazi trench war ! I made a calculation and russians should have 6x the actual number of those systems. 240mm projectile it’s super when pulverizing any hoholist fortification. But, in my military academy analysis 240 is very good but still not ENOUGH ! Now Russia must complete a new very heavy (not only heavy) autopropulsed mortar system !!!!!! Why ? Because it is very clearly that with the Airforce you cannot anymore destroy targets with FOAB’s unless very near the frontline (max. 1-2 km) necause of the saturation with cheap mobile MANPADS. So, all strategic ground attack MUST be replaced with mortar ones ! So, design a mobile mortar ‘FOAB launchers’. If Russia would have had such mortar, the bandera hoholists would have been of negociation till now without any doubt. Imagine that 20 360mm mortar shells of 500 kg would have had targeted Popasnaya ! In 10 minutes ALL ukronazi criminals would have been puverized and all Popasnaya would have been leveled to the oblivion. No more 3 month of heavy fightings and hundreds of casualties. Or Soledar now, or Backmut, or whatever …………… So, wait for that motha fucker Super Tullip, mass denazificator, my dear Russia !
Yea, Tullips autopropulsated heavy mortar. Now Russia see it’s short-sighted military strategy= not enough Tullips for such a great ukroshit nazi trench war ! I made a calculation and russians should have 6x the actual number of those systems. 240mm projectile it’s super when pulverizing any hoholist fortification. But, in my military academy analysis 240 is very good but still not ENOUGH ! Now Russia must complete a new very heavy (not only heavy) autopropulsated mortar system !!!!!! Why ? Because it is very clearly that with the Airforce you cannot anymore destroy targets with FOAB’s unless very near the frontline (max. 1-2 km) necause of the saturation with cheap mobile MANPADS. So, all strategic ground attack MUST be replaced with mortar ones ! So, design a mobile mortar ‘FOAB launchers’.That means a caliber of at least 320mm, the best is 360mm. If Russia would have had such mortar, the bandera hoholists would have been of negociation till now without any doubt. Imagine that 20 360mm mortar shells of 500 kg would have had targeted Popasnaya ! In 10 minutes ALL ukronazi criminals would have been puverized and all Popasnaya would have been leveled to the oblivion. No more 3 month of heavy fightings and hundreds of casualties. Or Soledar now, or Backmut, or whatever …………… So, wait for that motha fucker Super Tullip, mass denazificator, my dear Russia !
From Slavyangrad channel: “In the urban-type settlement of Nizhnyaya Belogorovka of the LPR, the enemy also made an attempt to stop the advancing allied forces. As a result of the battle, the enemy lost two infantry fighting vehicles and a large number of personnel in the amount of up to 150 NATO and Vushnik soldiers in both directions. ⠀ Not a single similar attempt by Ukrainian gangs in these areas to stop the offensive of the Akhmat special forces and other Russian power units brought them success. Suffering heavy losses, both wounded and killed, under the crushing onslaught of the allied forces, the Nazis were forced to leave their equipped fortifications. ⠀ The mood of our fighters is the most resolute, they are charged only for victory. The triumph of justice will certainly be on the land of the Russian Donbass. Our courageous warriors will do everything possible for this. “
Useless piece of shit.
Yea, Tullips autopropulsed heavy mortar. Now Russia see it’s short-sighted military strategy= not enough Tullips for such a great ukroshit nazi trench war ! I made a calculation and russians should have 6x the actual number of those systems. 240mm projectile it’s super when pulverizing any hoholist fortification. But, in my military academy analysis 240 is very good but still not ENOUGH ! Now Russia must complete a new very heavy (not only heavy) autopropulsed mortar system !!!!!! Why ? Because it is very clearly that with the Airforce you cannot anymore destroy targets with FOAB’s unless very near the frontline (max. 1-2 km) because of the saturation with cheap mobile MANPADS. So, all strategic ground attack MUST be replaced with mortar ones ! So, design a mobile mortar ‘FOAB launchers’. That means a caliber of at least 320mm, the best is 360mm. If Russia would have had such mortar, the bandera hoholists would have been in negociation till now without any doubt. Imagine that 20 360mm mortar shells of 500 kg would have had targeted Popasnaya ! In 10 minutes ALL ukronazi criminals would have been pulverized and all Popasnaya would have been leveled to the oblivion. No more 3 month of heavy fightings and hundreds of casualties. Or Soledar now, or Backmut, or whatever …………… So, wait for that motha fucker Super Tullip, mass denazificator, my dear Russia !
Training and discipline make the difference. Russians hit military targets… and eliminate them from firing back… Ukrainians hit buildings with civilians and DPR counter batteries open fire and take out their artillery. It’s simply not sustainable for the Ukrainians to be this stupid, maybe NATO thinks so, but they’re paper pushers, not war fighters.
Russian artillery systems have proven themselves to hold up to the intense war in Ukraine. The same can’t be said of the crap German guns.