Ukraine’s artillery pinned down by Russian drones | REUTERS
this hulking German supplied Howitzer rumbles out of its Forest Hideout it only has a few minutes to fire before slipping back undercover to evade Russian surveillance in the skies above Ukrainian artillery units are playing a cat and mouse game to avoid Russian drones hunting high value weapons like the self-propelled panah how said 2000 Crews including the 43rd Artillery Brigade roers recently visited say they face increasing harassment from enemy drones now a staple of Russia’s Arsenal this battery commander who goes by the Corine leova says his unit had been directly hit four times by Russian high-tech attack drones they use a lot more strike drones like privet 82 they have different variations of Lance it drones which were upgraded they have cumulative high explosive Warheads there were attacks before but not the same Mount now it’s really scary Western supplied artillery like the German haza is a priority Target for Moscow it has pledged to focus its strikes on these types of weapons senior battery officer Andre stavich the situation has become more difficult because they have a lot of electronic warfare equipment they don’t allow our birds to fly over their territory thus it’s harder to detect targets and hit them the other reason are their kamakazi strike drones they have an abundance of zala and alland drones sometimes it happens that there’s lots of work for the day but we can’t move because something is always flying above if these birds could be shot down or jammed we’d be more effective and could work more like other Ukrainian artillery units the 43rd Brigade faces a critical shell shortage that limits a how’s potential forcing it to fire far fewer shells a day Ukrainian troops across the sprawling front are anxiously awaiting shipments from a long delayed $61 billion US military aid package repairing the vehicle is also a challenge the availability of spare parts is limited and a navigation system frequently malfunctions and is difficult to fix on the battlefield stav Nichi like many others is calling for more electronic warfare systems to jam the Russian drones the main problem here is spare parts and shells but even if there were parts and shells you’d have the problem of enemy birds so everything needs to work together in a system electronic warfare and surveillance artillery then our hit percentage would be much higher this is what I think
Amid a critical shell shortage, Ukrainian artillery units are playing a cat-and-mouse game to avoid Russian drones hunting high-value weapons like a self-propelled Panzerhaubitze 2000
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