A Polish-made Krab howitzer.
Russian troops have destroyed yet another Krab self-propelled 155 mm howitzer of Kiev forces in the special military operation zone in Ukraine, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on December 25.
The spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Yevgenyevich Konashenkov, said that the Polish-made howitzer was destroyed on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
“A Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system was destroyed near the city of Seversk in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” TASS quoted the spokesman as saying.
Just a day before the announcement, a photo showing a completely destroyed Krab being moved out from eastern Ukraine on a truck surfaced online.
Click to see full-size. Via Twitter.
The Krab was designed in Poland by Huta Stalowa Wola, by combining the South Korean K9 Thunder chassis with a British BAE Systems AS-90M Braveheart turret with French Nexter Systems 52-calibre long gun and Polish WB Electronics’ Topaz artillery fire control system.
In May, the Polish government donated 18 Krabs to Kiev forces. Later, the two governments signed a contract under which Poland will sell Ukraine an additional 60 Krabs, in a deal worth $700 million.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence Oleksii Reznikov revealed in October that Poland had already donated three battalions of Krabs, around 54 pieces with support vehicles, and another three were ordered.
The Krab has a maximum firing range of 30 kilometers with regular shells, and up to 50 kilometers with American-made M982 Excalibur precision-guided rounds. The modern howitzer can fire up to six shells per minute.
The Russian military has already destroyed or damaged many of Ukraine’s newly-acquired Krab howitzers, mainly using artillery and loitering munitions.
Kiev forces have received more than 800 artillery systems from the United States and its allies since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. However, they are still struggling to match the immense fire power of the Russian military.
Crap Howitzer Of Ukrainian Forces…….
I guess they have Krab salad in Kiev now.
How about those roast Polish kebabs huh…nice and hot on a cold afternoon.
A destroyed howitzer is a big victory for Russians, they are completely desperate 😆😆😆
So, Ukraine is most likely using US monetary “donations” to buy Howitzers from Poland. No surprise.
Chatarra polaca
Basically, Krabs are krap. The mix-n-match approach to mobile artillery only demonstrates engineering naivety.
large fuel hungry breakdown prone semi-mobile ground targets crewed by slow-moving people vs. ever-changing airborne drone systems
Just watched an interview online with former UN executive director Calin Georgegeu hope I got the spelling correct he talks about the world economic forum and the corruption within the UN. He also spoke about the conflict in Ukraine saying that international bankers and financial institutions in the West see the vast natural resources that Russia has and that the west want to control and that this explains why the Anglo American group are pushing for a major war with Russia to steal her vast natural resources just as they have done on the African continent for more than 100 years …….
Poland sold more than 200 Krabs to Ukraine. Long way for russia…
Grilled crabs for Russia lancet.
Polaks gave them for free. They are to dumb for doing good business.
A destroyed howitzer is a big victory for Russians, they are completely desperate. No wonder that everybody is laughing at weak helpless Russia 😆😆😆
So we won. Not yet? Shit, what are we waiting for?
Russia is waiting for the cold of winter to reduce the stench of 35,000+ Ukrainian corpses abandoned on the battlefield. They should of been collected by the Nazis and given to the families a long time ago so that they could have closure. Instead, Russia will identify and bury with dignity the cannon fodder that the Kiev regime would not respect.
Poland decided on the date of the invasion of the west of Ukraine, It could happen in May 2023. It is alleged that by this time the Ukrainian army will completely lose its combat capability and will not be able to fight on two fronts.
The journalist also claims that some training camps have already been opened in Poland, where future mobilized people will acquire the necessary skills for combat operations.
Wer soll das glauben? Wenn die Polen das sagen, dann glaube ich es nicht. Warum soll Polen grad Ukraine angreifen? Die haben doch ganze Zeit der Ukraine geholfen. Die wollen die Russen schwächen und nicht die Ukraine. Deine Nachricht beinhaltet wenig glaubwürdig. Solange nicht eine der Führerenden aus Polen diese Nachricht nicht bestätigen, glaube ich es nicht. Wer hat es gesagt? Wenn es irgendein Journalist gesagt hat, dann ist nicht glaubwürdig. Es muss von einem General oder von einem Ministerpräsidenten sein. Shalom
They’ve been chomping at the bit since the beginning, itching to go in there and occupy, just too cowardly to go in alone.
Hat doch dein Kumpel Medwedew behauptet …
The official “roadmap” in Poland says , they will support Ukraine forever to conquere Russia. For the sake of pure idealism. But the old Polish dream of Great Poland (project Intermarium) demands , the country must fight to get back the former Polish lands , that belongs today to Ukraine. And really friends were the two countries never. There are also some paralelities to Turkey, when we see the more than 4 millions refugees in Poland. Turkey has tried to solve this problem by occupying North Syria and trying to settle down there the Syrian refugees. So may Poland try to solve the migration problem by occupying the western part of Ukraine , if the EU refuses to take the Ukrainians from the country to western Europe.
I mean the hidden mobilisation in Poland is the fact. And people know very well , they will fight not necessary against Russia (the great majority doesn’t want such war, also NATO will oppose), but the only purpose is to be prepared for the possibility , that Ukraine would be defeated by Russia and the new conflict and race would be opened to take what will remain of Ukraine – to be divided up between Poland , Romania and Hungary , maybe even Belarus.
All that’s needed now is for the tide to come in and wash everything away.
The Russian brass seems to be almost apologetic when announcing destroyed targets of the Kiev junta. Oops, we destroyed another vehicle today belonging to the Ukrainian army. Sorry about that.
“The Krab was designed in Poland by Huta Stalowa Wola, by combining the South Korean K9 Thunder chassis with a British BAE Systems AS-90M Braveheart turret with French Nexter Systems 52-calibre long gun and Polish WB Electronics’ Topaz artillery fire control system.”
Never good to get a dose of the krabs but these Frankenstein piles of scrap are particularly nasty.
There’s a joke in there for sure…like the currently disintegrating EUSSR where the Krauts are the police, the Brits were the chefs, the Poles the rocket scientists, the French the generals….etc etc etc…
To Odessa
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