The ammunition of Russian 122-mm D-30 howitzers and 2S1 "Gvozdika" self-propelled guns on the front line began to be replenished with new OF56IM-1 high-explosive fragmentation shells with an increased range.
Now it reaches 19.3 km, and before that the range was 15.3 km, said military analyst Evgeny Damantsev. R
The calculations of the D-30 and "Gvozdika" are capable of conducting counter-battery counteraction to the calculations of American 105-mm towed howitzers M109A3, remote by more than 15.5 km, whose M913 RAP rocket-assisted projectiles have a range of 19 km.
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