Not only Caesar guns and VAB armored personnel carriers: France will give Ukraine 155-mm TRF1 howitzers, which can shoot up to 30 km
We have repeatedly written that France has sent Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny showed French self-propelled guns CAESAR and VAB armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, and now there is information about another weapon that is going to be transferred to the AFU.
Here's What We Know
We are talking about the French TRF1 howitzers, which have been removed from service. The local newspaper L'Opinion writes about this. The number of guns and terms of delivery are still unknown.
Flashback
TRF1 is a French 155-mm self-propelled gun. It was produced from 1981 to 1993 by the GIAT company. TRF1 was designed to equip artillery regiments of infantry and tank divisions. It could travel independently at a speed of 8 km/h. It has semi-automatic loading, range up to 30 km (depending on the shell) and rate of fire up to 6 rounds per minute. The howitzer is served by 7 people.
Source: L'Opinion
Go Deeper:
- Spectacular video: AFU showed BTR-4 "Bucephalus" with a 30-mm cannon 2A72 firing at the enemy
- Ukraine received 900 high-precision GPS guided missiles M982 Excalibur to the amount of $92 million, thanks to them howitzers M777A2 and SAU PzH 2000 can shoot up to 40.5 km with an accuracy of 2 meters
- Germany donated the Cobra counter-battery radar system to the AFU for 50,000,000 euros; it is one of the best radars in the world
