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Germany is about to experience in Ukraine, the latest long-range ammunition. As reported by the well-known Russian blog bmpd, only the APU needs to 255 long-range guided artillery 155 mm shells Vulcano GLR.
The manufacturer of these weapons, capable of hitting targets at distances up to 70000 meters, is an Italian company Leonardo. For precise guidance is inertial-satellite system.
The shells come in 2021 and introduced into the armament of the PzH 2000 self-propelled guns, though the German armed forces intend to get them only from 2025, and field testing is planned only at the end of this year. It turns out that, along with a test firing at the Germans were going to test them in actual combat, for present purposes.
It is also known that these shells have already been successfully used Italian 155-mm towed howitzer FH-70 and the French CAESAR wheeled self-propelled guns, the latter was able to shoot steadily to 70 km Both of these artillery systems have already been delivered to the Ukrainian nationalist groups.
