The United States and its allies continue to supply Ukraine with obsolete weapons, including cannon artillery. Following the American howitzers М777А2, supplied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine without fire control system units, USA put in “simplified version” and M119A3 howitzers.
105-mm light howitzers M119A3 were delivered to Ukraine as military aid last year, but there were no images of these guns on Ukrainian resources. And here is the 67th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which received these same howitzers into service, published pictures of ongoing training with the M119A3. As it turned out, Americans put guns in “simplified version”, by dismantling the digital fire control system unit from them.
On Ukrainian resources, these pictures caused a heated discussion, various opinions have been expressed, why did americans do this, beginning with “so that the secret blocks do not fall into the hands of the Russians”, to “we just don’t have an American tactical command and control system”. However, no fire control unit, the inertial navigation unit and the ballistic computer does not prevent the Armed Forces of Ukraine from using these howitzers to strike at the positions of Russian troops. Certainly not the same accuracy., as stated, but nonetheless.
Recall, that in the spring of last year in Kyiv they sang the praises of another American “Wunderwaffe”, which was supposed to be the M777A2 howitzer. It was stated, that after the delivery of this weapon, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will defeat Russian troops, since the howitzer is a very accurate weapon. However, it turned, that the United States is supplying the APU M777A2 in a simplified version, without digital fire control system. Subsequently, the Ukrainian military even began to criticize the American howitzer., which had a low survivability of the trunk, general fragility of the structure and strong lateral displacement.
