Russia will quickly deploy its latest howitzers to its Northern Army District which borders Finland and Norway, the pinnacle of the Rostec state defence conglomerate mentioned in remarks revealed on Wednesday (Dec 27).
The testing of the brand new Coalition-SV self-propelled artillery models has been accomplished and their mass manufacturing has already began, Sergei Chemezov, the pinnacle of Rostec informed the state RIA information company in an interview.
The primary pilot batch will probably be delivered by the top of 2023, he mentioned.
“I believe they are going to seem there (within the Northern Army District) quickly, since howitzers of this class are wanted to offer a bonus over Western artillery fashions when it comes to firing vary,” Chemezov mentioned.
In 2021, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin modified the standing of the Russian Northern Fleet, whose zone of duty was mainly the Russian Arctic, to the Northern Army District, incorporating into it additionally the Murmansk area, which shares borders with Finland and Norway.
Since launching a full-scale invasion in Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow has accused “the collective West” of staging a proxy struggle with Russia and warned that Moscow will construct up forces at its western borders following Finland’s accession to the US-led NATO alliance.
Earlier in December, Russia’s TASS state information company reported that single Coalition-SV howitzers had already been deployed to the frontline in Ukraine.
The howitzers, with a spread of as much as 70km, are geared up with a contemporary 2A88 cannon of 152mm calibre with a firing charge of greater than 10 rounds per minute, in addition to a contemporary system for automating the processes of gun pointing, goal choice and navigation, based on TASS.
