The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine intends to start testing a wheeled ACS in the near future “Bohdan”, created in a single copy. According to Defense Express, with a corresponding proposal, the military department turned to the leadership “Kramatorsk Heavy Machine Tool Plant”, where is the howitzer.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine plans to conduct a stage of preliminary tests as soon as possible “Bohdan” in order to determine the real capabilities of the ACS and its compliance with certain requirements. After this stage, it is already planned to conduct state tests and take the howitzer into service., starting mass production.
highlights, that the Ukrainian military intend to get self-propelled guns “Bohdan” into service “already in the near future”.
As previously reported, Ukraine found ammunition for state tests of self-propelled artillery unit “Bohdan”, 155-mm shells at the end of December 2020 years were supplied by the Czech company Excalibur Army. The delivery includes practical and high-explosive fragmentation ammunition.
note, that self-propelled guns were not tested for more than a year due to the lack of NATO-caliber ammunition, under which it is developed “Bohdan”. The last shooting was reported at the end 2019 of the year. Howitzer tests took place at a training ground in the Dnepropetrovsk region. On “zero” during the testing phase, self-propelled weapons were tested with a hydroshot (hydro-bombardment), then the so-called inert ammunition was used. It did not come to live shooting, the reason is not called.
is approved, that during the tests, the capabilities of the ACS were confirmed to carry out fire at a rate of up to 6 rounds per minute. According to early developer announcements, the maximum range when firing an active-rocket projectile is 60 km.
