The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will buy artillery from the last century - Roszm

The Russian "Malva" significantly loses its range of Western artillery systems. It can beat 24-28 kilometers. At the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2023", the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has concluded a contract for the supply of Malva Artillery Complex. About it writes the Russian edition of The Moscow Times on August 16. It is reported that the Russian defense department purchased the howitzers of Soviet production on the wheelbase of Basa-6610.

The range of "Malva" lesions is 24-28 kilometers. According to the authors of the publication, Malva loses significantly in the range of Western artillery systems. The retired Russian colonel Anatoliy Matviychuk in an interview with Izvestia stated that the range of the mentioned howitzers would be increased to "confront the Western guns". "We have to increase the range for counter -battering struggle for about 10 km for all our weapons samples.

Then, without interruption, without entering the area of ​​fire damage, we will be able to impress the enemy in an artillery duel," Matviychuk said. We will remind, on July 27 the press service of "Rostekh" reported the completion of state tests of the first for the Russian army of wheel howitzers "Malva". This is actually the first CAO on the wheel platform created by the Russian defense.