Greece negotiates deal with Czechia for ammunition transfer to Ukraine. The planned delivery will include 2,000 5-inch Zuni rockets, 180 2.75-inch anti-tank rockets, 90,000 90mm projectiles used for anti-tank and anti-aircraft purposes, 4 million bullets. Greece will also supply 70 US-mai…

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  1. Greece negotiates deal with Czechia for ammunition transfer to Ukraine.

    The planned delivery will include 2,000 5-inch Zuni rockets, 180 2.75-inch anti-tank rockets, 90,000 90mm projectiles used for anti-tank and anti-aircraft purposes, 4 million bullets.

    Greece will also supply 70 US-maid M114A1 howitzers from Greek army stocks.

    Prices for a deal are currently being negotiated with the Czech Republic that will facilitate the transfer of much-needed ammunition and artillery systems directly to Ukraine.

  3. > 90,000 90mm projectiles used for anti-tank and anti-aircraft purposes

    That caused me to take a very long look at Greece’s equipment list, which is an interesting collection of historic equipment. I don’t think they’ve ever thrown anything out. I’d be interesting to know the serviceability rates of the older stuff, presumably “not good”.

    That said, presumably these 90mm ammunition is for the M67 recoilless rifle as I can’t see that they have anything that shoots 90mm shells, unless their M47 tanks came with 90mm guns originally and they upgraded to the 105mm L7 later.

  4. I’ve seen the negatives, so I’ll post the positives:
    It’s a good time to receive another 70 155mm howitzers, even if old. The Greek reserve arsenal stocks are 1950s era manufacture, all the actual WWII variants were scrapped post war. Well over 2000 are still in use by militaries around the world. Once you slap a new barrel on them, they’ll be just as useful as an M-198, if not as accurate as M-777 which has much better ranging capability. They still will outrange all but the best 152mm guns and firing cluster munitions, they will be quite deadly. and 70 firing positions forward will soak up a lot of lancets.

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