Near Toretsk, the Ukrainian Armed Forces use a heavy-duty cannon from the USSR with shells from the USA,
In the spring of 2022, Ukraine exhausted the supply of shells for this gun, so it was taken behind the front line for a long time.
The Ukrainian army used a heavy-duty Soviet cannon with shells from the United States in the battles near Toretsk.
According to BILD correspondent Bjorn Stritzel, who visited the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the city of Toretsk, the Ukrainian Armed Forces recently brought into battle a heavy-duty self-propelled artillery unit (SPG) 2S7 “Pion” weighing 60 tons with a barrel of 12 meters. This is the heaviest operational cannon in the world. It was developed in the USSR in the 1960s to destroy enemy concrete fortifications.
“Pion” needs 203 mm caliber shells, each weighing 100 kg. According to the publication, in the spring of 2022, the Ukrainian Armed Forces quickly used up this ammunition from Soviet reserves, so these self-propelled guns were withdrawn from the front line. Recently, the Ukrainians were supplied with shells from the United States of the required…
