Ukraine acquired 12.7mm ammo in Poland

Ukraine imported forty thousand 12.7 mm cartridges for NSV and DShK heavy machine guns.

Militarnyi informs with reference to the Ukrainian Military Pages.

According to the Great Export Import service, which monitors import and export operations, in September 2021, the Ukrainian State Company Ukrspetsexport acquired 12.7 × 108 mm cartridges.

The ammos were purchased from the Polish private enterprise Vismag Jacek Jakubczyk.

The transaction amount for machine-gun ammunition is over $242,944.

The publication recalls that Ukraine also regularly purchases 7.62 × 54 mm cartridges abroad, which are used in Kalashnikov machine guns and Dragunov sniper rifles.

In 2021, the Ukrainian State Company Ukrspetsexport imported 1,500,000 cartridges of 7.62 x 54 mm caliber through the Vismag Jacek Jakubczyk enterprise.

Also then, 34450 units of 30 mm HE-SD Round IO-30 (VOG-17M) for automatic grenade launcher AGS-17 were acquired.

Recall, in February 2022, it became known that Poland hands over light mortars and hand grenade launchers to Ukraine

The Prime Minister explained that Poland will first supply one hundred weapons unit. Among them are 60mm LMP-2017 light infantry mortars and, possibly, RGP-40 revolver-type grenade launchers.

In addition, Poland transmits to Ukraine the latest Piorun MANPADS.

Piorun MANPADS is a deep modernization of Polish Grom missile system, which is produced by Mesko. During the upgrade, the sensitivity of the infrared homing device was quadrupled.