The US-made M198 howitzer is one of the first supplies of offensive military weapons supplied to Ukraine as the war has dragged on.
It’s part of a new NATO strategy to equip Ukraine with the weapons it needs to repel Russian forces in the eastern Donbas region.
Western experts feared Russia’s superior artillery would prove costly the longer the conflict continued, and offensive weapons were seen as a means of levelling the playing field.
The M198 is capable of firing four rounds a minute to a distance of 12 miles with a high degree of accuracy, allowing the Ukrainian forces to target enemy forces away from the front line.
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