The armed forces of Ukraine (AFU) has lost in the Donbass all mortars of Soviet production and now becoming the new weapon of Ukrainian production. On Tuesday, September 27, reports “Interfax-Ukraine” with reference to the chief of armaments of the APU General-major Nikolay Shevtsov.
“During the fighting, almost the entire Arsenal of mortars was lost. Military units who came to restore the combat capability of the polygons have mortars, which exhausted its resource,” he said.
The General said to replace lost or broken mortars at Ukrainian army receives new development of the Ukrainian defense industry — the “Hammer”. “Today, the troops got about 200 mortars, manufactured at the plant “Mayak”. It is expected and further delivery. But for obvious reasons we will not announce absolute figures. They come to APU and are already at the forefront,” — said Shevtsov.
In late July, it was reported that the death of a soldier from the explosion on the range Wide lang in the Nikolaev area occurred when firing from a mortar “the Hammer.” “This is the mortar we knew since the spring, it was about how unreliable the weapon is always something going on, so the appearance two weeks ago in bath (battalion — approx. “Of the tape.<url>”) this miracle of technology was seen respectively,” — told reporters the friends of the fighter APU, who died in the explosion.
Mortar “Hammer” developed for the Kiev company “Plant “Mayak” in 2015. From 2016, the used APU.
The armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine began in April 2014, after Kiev announced the start of the so-called ATO (antiterrorist operation) — the violent suppression of protests in several districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
