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HIMARS and Western ACSs in service with the Armed Forces. Ukrainian gunners destroying the enemy’s logistics

HIMARS and Western ACSs in service with the Armed Forces. Ukrainian gunners destroying the enemy’s logistics

ACS Artillery Caesar ACS mlra Occupants elimination PzH 2000 Ukraine War with Russia

Over the past few weeks, the Ukrainian military has received modern long-range artillery from partners and begun use it actively. This helped to disrupt the logistics routes of the invaders.

Such opinion is reported by Texty media with the reference to the Italian military expert Thomas C. Theiner.

He believes that the use of modern weapons by Ukrainian artillerymen and strikes at logistics centers will cause significant problems for Russians.

This primarily is possible due to the fact that Ukrainian artillerymen in 2014-2015 managed to create dozens of depots and repositories on the occupied territories. Most of them are located in civil buildings near railway stations.

Thomas Theiner emphasizes that the Russian army and its quasi-formation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are technologically backward, so they usually load ammunition on trains by hand and take them to the front-line areas. The ammunition then is manually unloaded and carried by trucks to the advanced detachments.

Texty media put the attacks on Russian depots over the past month on the map.

Мапа завданих ударів по логістичних центрах ворога. Джерело: Texty.org.ua

However, due to the precise strikes of Ukrainian artillery at logistics centers, the Russians are forced to use more vehicles. If earlier the distance from the depot to the front line was 30-40 km, now it may amount to 100 km. Invaders have a limited number of trucks. This will greatly complicate their ability to supply troops.

The data suggest that Russia supplies up to 10 thousand tonnes of ammunition per week, reserves tanks, howitzers and necessary fuel. But now the Russian ammunition depots and supply posts are in the range of Ukrainian artillery and missiles.

AHS Krab, PzH 2000 and CAESAR can use conventional rounds with a range up to 40 km.

“In addition, Ukraine received GMLRS shells (which can be used for HIMARS and M270 – ed.), which keep full accuracy when fired up to 85 km. This allows Ukraine to “land” the missile exactly on the building and adjust the primer to detonate 23 kg of explosives inside. And if this is a big target (i.e., the depot), then Ukraine can destroy it, even if it is further than 85 km,” the article says.

So, in fact, Russia can’t store ammunition within a radius of 100 km from the frontline. The expert also notes that now the enemy uses as much ammunition as it loses, so it has already begun to deliver old Soviet-era ammunition from the territory of Belarus.

“Even worse for Russia — their trucks carry less tonnage than Western ones, and, unlike Western ammunition, Russian ammunition is supplied in bulky wooden boxes. That is, the Russians mainly carry firewood, and the Western military — almost only the explosives,” the expert writes.

This means that enemy units will receive ammunition unevenly.

Recently, the Ukrainian military showed how HIMARS are used in the Zaporizhzhia area.

ACS Artillery Caesar ACS mlra Occupants elimination PzH 2000 Ukraine War with Russia