M109 howitzers of the Belgian Armed Forces. Photo credits: Flanders Technical Supply via Belgian Military Interests.
Former Belgian Army M109 155 mm self-propelled howitzers were sold to Ukraine by a private company, Belgian Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder confirmed to the Chamber of Representatives on June 1.
In 2008, the Belgian army withdrew 108 M109A4BE howitzers from service. Later they were all sold to two private companies, Flanders Technical Supply and OIP Land Systems.
Ukraine purchased the howitzers from OIP Land Systems. The company is thought to have bought 44 of the Belgian army’s M109A4BE howitzers. In 2018, it sold 18 of the howitzers to the US in a re-export deal. This means that Ukraine may have bought the remaining 26 howitzers.
According to Dedonder, the Belgian army wanted to rebuy the M109A4BE howitzers from OIP Land Systems. However, the company priced the howitzers more than ten times higher than the price at which they were sold to it.
It’s worth noting that Ukraine also received around 20 M109A3GN howitzers from Norway. Some of these howitzers have been already spotted heading towards the frontlines in the Donbass region.
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- Click to see full-size image. By the Anadolu Agency, via Twitter.
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- Click to see full-size image. By the Anadolu Agency, via Twitter.
The US-made M109A4BE has a maximum firing range of 21 kilometers with regular rounds and up to 30 kilometers with rocket-assisted rounds. The howitzer can fire four rounds per minute.
Ukraine received hundreds of howitzers from its Western allies over the last few weeks. Despite this, its forces are still outgunned by the Russian military and the armed forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic.
US is throwing money at a dead loss and corrupt Ukraine. This is a CIA front company.
Mind your bussines bro, americans wanted to bleed out russia and it works out. Great deal for usa:)
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bro its your mothers rectum bleeding,get your daily dose and die die die already you f.cking one chromosome.
Humiliated lgtb nazi !!! f offf faggot !!!
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Why you Russians can’t take criticism? You may think you’re doing everything right but reality is just the opposite. Ukrainians and Russians were getting along fine before 2014 and some Ukrainians have become your enemies after that but your true enemy isn’t Ukraine. Forget it. You Russians don’t have the balls to face your real enemies anyway.
So you admit they were getting along fine before the western-backed Maidan revolution in 2014. Then you should know that afterwards ethnic russians were persecuted in Ukraine so how the hell is that Russia’s fault? Logic is not your strong suit eh?
Russian its your anus !!! but your nazi suastica in your recto is with monkey covid !!
You need Russia History 101, before you can venture a post that has any semblance of a thought process. Your post ooses from ignorance and prejudice. Nobody can take such a comment seriously. “Seethefuture, Hollywood style” would be a more fitting name, for yourself.
hans draus again presenting one of a kind stupidity. hahahahaha
triggered russobot? great news
Living in a dreamworld, are you? Can you provide even a shred of evidence for your claim?
Americans want their tax dollars invested in their country, not to fight some wars for billionnaires.
Fucking idiot gtfo!
Why was dvornikov fired?
It is funny – you sound just like Turk-isis now. I remember some mad Turk-isis pigs when they got the news that Russia-Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Iraq were killing their hardcore Sunnis (Wahhabis) left and right in Syria.
Wouldn’t you riding high on Neo-Nazis cucks – not long ago tho?
From Neo-Nazis winning to Russia are done for to this now: “americans wanted to bleed out russia and it works out” huh…
Why? They aren’t our adversary anywhere and they’ll still be a nuclear superpower regardless of the outcome but due to the money we are throwing at them and the damage to our economy the sanctions are taking, WE will be weaker. Time to grow up.
More scrap metal along the road. raus love his roads full of debris. Be content, there will be a lot of metal bits from those shitty tanks. The next careers n Ukraine will be for recycling all of the useless steel around the road into something usable. Ukrsaine… Leading the world in recycling.
What a joke. US is the most indebted country in the world. They had to borrow from China to send 40 billion to Ukraine. Russia is virtually debt free. Seems Russia is bleeding out the US and EU.
Hans, you lies are getting worse every day. You are breaking very fast now. What up with that? Are you down because Ukies are being wiped by the hundreds now, while Russia has almost no losses anymore? Seems you getting very frustrated looking at the facts. I would too if I were a total dimwit like you :-)
Why was dvornikov fired?
Ukraine is getting artillery from all over the world. Are you guys sure Russia can deal with this.
I would think Russia will be outgunned and outranged very soon with the flood of all of this artillery.
NATO has a combined budget of $2.8 trillion, US alone spends over $1 trillion, but we don’t have baby formula. Russian defence budget is barely $70 billion and Putin for some reason did not mobilize the Russian military and has a lot of catch up to d0. US taxpayers alone have spent $90 billion on the corrupt Ukraine regime. This is a dress rehearsal for the upcoming war on China.
Not with old school M109 -not even the now out of date M109 Paladin -UK got shot of it now has the AS-90 and Germany has introduced the PzH 2000.
You should say what the Russians want to hear because they’re living in fantasy land so they down vote any comment that isn’t sweet to hear, regardless of the current situation. Based on what the US has been doing to them, the US must’ve hated them a lot but they still don’t recognize this fact. Denying the fact that someone’s trying to destroy you is just so retarded.
This will just result in more deaths, of which the majority will fall on Ukrainian side. So nothing you really help the Ukrainian people with. Not that the west was ever interested in the wellbeing of the Ukrainian people, who they gladly sacrifice in their geopolitical games, anyway. Just like millions of Arabs or whoever they throw in the meatgrinder of their foreign policy adventurism.
Lol, no.
Soviet artillery stocks are….endless.
Why was dvornikov fired?
Getting it and being able to use it are quite different subjects. Plus that most of the Ukranian regular forces now are either dead, wounded, surrounded or have surrendered. Conscripted middle-aged men without at least a years worth of training do not make the best soldiers, no matter what weapons you supply them with. – That being said, western forces use a whole different ratio, as they have traditionally relied on air superiority. So their normal ratio of artillery support is about about 1 artillery unit per 3 units of infantry and/or tanks. Russia has excellent air defences, so has long relied on artillery as their main breaking power and fire support, using a ratio of about 1 on 1 instead of 1 on 3. It would be almost impossible to match that, even if all western countries together sent out more than 50% of all their artillery, which basically would leave them without any in case it would be needed.
Nothing will save them, NATO will still fight conventional war like they did MacArthur’s Home(defeated) by Christmas offensive. They will pretend like China or Russia have make-believe armies and ignore warnings about red lines only to be soundly defeated. Quoting western sources to amplify the massive amount of NATO fanboy copium the PVA was fighting with one rifle for every four men with the remainder serving as grenade tossers. The only truth is that all heavy weapons were left in Manchuria to hasten the LONG MARCH of expelling imperialist forces from China’s border and PVA were only equipped with mortars, albeit more than enough to handle several hundred thousand nosy cockroaches. American forces had multiple carriers operating in the area that were flying hundreds of sorties a day along with sufficient artillery but in the end the only thing that saved their retreat was the NATO military doctrine of decentralized execution, everyone run as fast as you can for only the strong will survive this rout. If you want to receive medals or commendations and have your body repatriated seventy years later feel free to hold your position. Their admirable logistics abilities also came in to play as with the chaotic rout from Afghanistan, the ‘Christmas Miracle’ of the Hungnam evacuation ceded 59,000 square kilometers to North Korea and saved 100,000 troops from annihilation in only a week. In typical NATO fashion they completely destroyed the port upon retreating during one of the harshest Korean winters on record.
Die sollten den Schrott gleich zum nächsten Stahlwerk schicken. Da haben die noch einen Nutzen.
So will these be held back to support the Siegfriedline at Dnepr-Kharkov or be massed to retake Kherson in the july-august offensive? I guess the latter and now it is a matter of holding out in Donbass not to allow the russians to change direction. Will Ukraine need to and have time to train a new army for that kind of offensive?
They are getting down to Dads army and Hitler Jugend as it is,offensive with what?
Another good news, can wait to see destroyed russian invaders like during kiev ,,capture” xD
hans draus, hahahahaha.
*hans anus
gg
hans draus, hahahaha.
so many new tanks to explode from the davos psicogaypedo parazites !!!
It would be a shame if that company in Belgium had an accident.
Bought with who’s money? Gypsy poodles
Why exactly this private company bought howitzers in the first place?
For a tenth of their value
The rapes were sorted out, it’s fake, it’s just that the Minister of Ukraine Denisova had perverted fantasies and apparently no personal life. The next thesis of Ukraine is “the whole world is with us”. The WHOLE world for Ukraine is estimated at 20% of some kind of suckers. But the real WORLD with 80% of the population is just with RUSSIA! This is just: The monarchies of the Middle East (the ruler of the UAE called Moscow a second home) are India with a HUGE pharmacological complex, China with capacities in micro electronics. Asia and Malay. And the countries of Africa, which are SIMPLY FULL with resources. and LIKE with Ukraine, amers with fan power outages in the summer (I heard that all cool countries off out electricity) that 1300 stingers will be building for FOUR years. Naked Europe, which has inflation and nothing of its own. Britos go to the mcduck to wash (newspaper Sun). The Amers printed candy wrappers, and the world switched to national currencies, so all inflation remained on the neck of the Amers and Europe. The WORLD does not need American dollars – wrappers
If the US doesn’t hate Russia, none of this would never happen – Ukraine coup, Nord Stream 2, Mistral carriers, Olympic ban, Butina, Kamila Valieva…. Too many to name.
But the stupid wuss with no balls is still living in denial. If Ukraine fail, they will turn China against you and they’re very much capable to do so.
Side note: “The US to Send Ukraine its “Gray Eagle” Drones.”
Also, no they aren’t sending those – they are selling those – how many? 4, so far.
Like the Turk-isis drones, these aren’t going to change anything, besides attacking civilians or Russian troops that are pushing in…
If Ukranian forces are being outgunned in the People’s Republic of Lunga Lunga then why are the Putin cockroaches in Russia still crying about the howitzers? It’s common knowledge that the stooges at the Kremlin are cowards. But crying about it? Somebody bring these assholes some paper towels.
Cockroach Bongo-Bongo where did you see someone crying?
I see you crying now. Fucking crying moron.
It seems you are the only one in here whining all around while your buddies are getting annihilated at even faster pace by the Russian liberators. Get it together dude, you are a utter embarrassment to humanity and as always very pathetic and desperate for any kind of attention. Very weak and also very sad moment for you again.
He is just frustrated and raging because his buddies in the Ukraine are being wiped out by the hundreds these days now. He is coping very bad with those kind of facts. Typical for NATO losers.
There is no nato my friend, if nato is there then it will take two weeks to finish off russian invaders. Your weak russian army stuck in very poor and corrupted ukraine and you want to fight nato? hahahaha dream on u primitive ruskiye orc.
Kamel, Ziegen und Eselficker, halt die fresse.
Isn’t the US a front company for the Rothschild Secret Police, aka MOSSAD?
The entire story of Ukraine since Maidan is a story of hatred; hatred of psychopaths ruling the entirety and following fate of USA. The only rational element in this hatred is a confession that Russia is the only belligerent opponent to the craved total world dictum of these weak-minded, child-like elites. They can’t stand that all these marvelous resources of the Russian land should not be under their control. That’s the reason why, and probably the only reason why. If USA were under any such law as “hateful behaviour”, like Twitter is, they would have to be shut down for exactly this: hateful behaviour. Russia has failures, but they can be seen as failures of despair. Russia has followed interests to spread international influence; this is neither illegal nor difficult to understand. Russia has fought Islamic terrorists and liberated Syria and only Kurds have joined in this honourable endeavour, the rest was willing to support or tolerate hatred. Despite the failures that may have been seen, I don’t see that Russia is following any policy based on hatred. They are doing “what ever it takes”.
It will not be difficult to locate and destroy most of this equipment. As for the two private firms who sold the artillery to the Kiev regime. Find out the names and private home addresses of the firms owners and executives and post them online.
There are plenty of Russians in Ukraine letting Russia know about locations…
This is why you BOMB EVERY RAILWAY an ROAD NETWORK 24/7
Rails lines can be an asset to either side. Same with bridges. So care has to be taken about which to destroy.
The only business to flourish in Ukraine is of the scrap metal one.
and concrete is very big (or will be)
If they are seen heading to the front, why is Russia not destroying them before they get there? Also, why are no examples being shown captured? If the Ukrainians are doing as bad as it looks like, they should be abandoning more than small arms……
There is simply not much left from those supplies. Russian artillery is wiping out almost all bigger “guns” now. Why should Russia bother taking care of them anyway? When stuff gets abandoned and it is in good condition it will be reused. Don’t worry about that.
Russia has a huge momentum now. What counts is how many Ukrainian units they wipe out. Ukies are massively refusing to fight. More and more videos surface of them complaining and refusing to follow orders. That is what many have foreseen and now it is happening. Areas and bigger towns are liberated at a much faster pace then ever before. Not much resistance from beaten and totally exhausted Ukies anymore.
future ;donations to the ;RUSSIAN; forces.. [can’t cure stupid]
Russia is delivering BMP-1 and T62 tanks to frontlines. And no howizer transport has been seen in many weeks
Ukraine will outrange Russia.
Long range artillery is best against fixed targets. Not so much against advancing military forces. It will be a win for Russia and very soon…
norway is disgusting lets yanks occupy their territory without accountability without the norwegians having a say,on the front line for yanks cowards against russia,yankee cowards norwegian idiots poodles
Europe is going to be missing a few capital cities very soon. I would prepare accordingly.