Below is a rare image recording the scene of an M777 artillery site of the Ukrainian army being attacked and destroyed.
A video posted by Voenhronika.ru on the night of October 6 shows that a Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detected a Ukrainian army truck operating in the vicinity of the city of Lyman in the Donetsk region. After a period of monitoring, the UAV recorded the scene of the truck carrying ammunition to the enemy’s M777 artillery battlefield located in a wooded area.
After receiving the data transferred by the UAV, the Russian artillery and missile forces made an attack on the M777 artillery site of the Ukrainian army.
The M777 is a howitzer developed by the British defense industry for the US military in the early 2000s. The gun weighs 4.2 tons; the length when marching is 9.5m and in combat is 10.7m; the ability to raise the barrel angle of the M777 in the range of 0-71.7 degrees; The maximum rate of fire is 7 rounds/min.
Data published by Business Insider at the end of last month shows that since February, the Ukrainian military has received at least 136 M777 howitzers from the US and its allies, of which the number of artillery received from Washington is 108. . It is expected that in the near future, the Kyiv government will receive from the US 16 more M777 howitzers with 75,000 conventional bullets and 500 M982 Excalibur guided rounds.
