Ukrainian service members firing a M777 howitzer on an unspecified front in the Donbass region. Source: the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
The Russian military and its allies has captured for the first time one of the M777 155 mm towed howitzers recently supplied by the US and other Western states to Kiev forces.
On July 12, the WarGonzo channel on Telegram shared a short video of the howitzer, which was captured by the 2nd Lugansk Corps. The howitzer is severely damaged, most likely beyond repair. It was likely abandoned by Kiev forces after being hit. Despite this, Russian experts can likely use the captured howitzer to study the design.
The M777 howitzer has a maximum rate of fire of seven rounds per minute with a range of up to 40 kilometers when firing Excalibur precision-guided rounds. The US, Canada and Australia have supplied Kiev forces with more than 100 howitzers of this type along with hundreds of thousands of 155 mm rounds since April.
The US latest $400 million military aid package to Ukraine included at least 1,000 Excalibur rounds for the M777s and other 155 mm howitzers which were recently supplied to Kiev forces.
While this is the first time the Russian military and its allies capture a M777, they did destroy many howitzers of this type. Over the past week, Russian strikes destroyed three hangars in the Donbass region where M777 howitzers were stored.
Ukraine received more than 200 howitzers of different types from its Western allies after the beginning of the Russian special military operation. Despite this, its forces are still outgunned by the Russian military and its allies.
atomic bombs will be used with enough provocation in America we have a phony president pushing this war, he is a senile old man, and I don’t think he can rouse enough interest to fight beside NAZI
Denis Pushilin has said – “the DPR executive service has prepared a place to carry out the DEATH sentences of foreign Mercenaries” -dates of executions will NOT be made public -note “of foreign mercenaries ” meaning those three aren’t the last.
They should do it as pay per view events to help raise money for DPR/LPR injured veterans.
Thank you Uncle Sam for your delivery. Unfortunately the quality of the goods were not up to Los Pollos standard and therefore we had to recycle it and send it to the steel plant to make D-30 guns
The only way the USA got information on Russia,s Hypersonic missile programme was to pay a spy to obtain it -Alexander Kuranov was held in custody and the USA “exported ” German war criminals to the USA to obtain information on the V1/2 missiles and the Atom bomb – none of them were tried at the Nuremberg Trials – German jet planes were transported to the USA -in tact.
They hired them openly. Wernher von Braun was the father of NASA. They even hired Japanese war criminals from Unit 731.
I am glad you know about the Evil Japanese Unit 731 in China – not many do .I have the original Soviet Union English edition of the Soviet War Crimes Trials -my god !! its totally evil not just the Chinese but Australians/Russians and others . I cant possibly post what they did -its sickening even worse than -“the Knights of the Bushido “.
More M777’s destroyed
https://t.me/intelslava/33007
Russia does not have to extract iron from expensive mining when it gets so much free metal from the West.
The way Washington is handing money and weapons to Ukraine with such zeal proves this is a war between America and Russia. So if Russia strikes America with nuclear weapons, you can’t say it was unprovoked.
They captured a destroyed howitzer…..
It is not that hard to capture M777s when the enemy has a “carry once, drop once” mentality on the field. Not knocking Ukraine military military but when you effectively draft your population into service, provide little to no training, foreign military aid is supplied with instructions those soldiers have to use an internet language translator to use, “drop and run” is not a bad call Ukraine is well over their head in this effort and drowning quickly. Their best move would be to the negotiation table quickly if not sooner.
It was burned inside a warehouse, with the truck that was used to pull it.
What a pathetic comment section, everyone name calling in broken English. To stupid to add any meaningful comments.
More obsolete US throw-away weapons. Like Stingers with dead batteries, or Javelins with out of date propellant.