Is the US M777 howitzer doomed?
US BAE designed and built M777 howitzers are maybe good for killing civilians in indiscriminate shelling of cities in Eastern Ukraine, but they are unwieldy, fragile and very high maintenance, made of poor quality British sourced metal and components, regularly break in process of operation, require extensive training to operate, and also require supplies of liquid nitrogen to be able to function (!), easy to knock out even in indirect fire by small amounts of shrapnel or even by indirect small arms fire, also easy to locate and destroy by precision and not-so-precision munitions as this post will demonstrate which is a record of M777 howitzer destruction and losses in the Ukraine conflict.
Though the M777 artillery was much touted or even fapped to earlier on in the conflict by Natoids as the then latest in a series of Western wunderwaffen that was supposed to turn back the tide, the US British-made M777 howitzer is another much hyped but, in reality, near useless and incapable Western and NATO weapons system and substandard, to boot, like all of the Western- and NATO designed and manufactured weaponry, and one that is easy to take out too.
Incomplete operational history of the US M777 howitzer in Ukraine, Approximate Total So Far: 40 OSINT verified and Documented on Blog as Destroyed, Which Translates to at Least 100 to 150 Destroyed Total in all.
No. 40 US M777 howitzer smoked with a Lancet UCAV, December 2022
No. 39 US M777 howitzer destroyed with a Lancet UCAV, December 2022
No. 38 US M777 howitzer destroyed with a Lancet UCAV, December 2022, link to footage
No. 37 US M777 howitzer torn apart with tractor trailer, at least one, two trucks, December 2022 (footage)
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No. 36 US M777 howitzer knocked out, December 2022
Nos. 33-35 US M777 howitzers taken out, November 2022
No. 32 US M777 howitzer destroyed + tractor, November 2022
Nos. 30-31 US M777 howitzer x 2 smoked by a Lancet, November 2022
No. 25-29 US M777 howitzer x 5 destroyed on one day in November 2022
No. 24 US M777 howitzer makes good firewood
Nos. 22-23 US M777 howitzers smoked with UCAV
Nos. 21-24 US M777 howitzers destroyed, truck destroyed
No. 20 US M777 howitzer destruction episode - US M777 howitzer wipe out
Footage is said to show the destruction of yet another US-supplied M777 howitzer, this time with a munitions truck.
No. 19 US M777 howitzer destruction episode - more M777 howitzer destruction
Here is another US-supplied M777 howitzer knocked out of action and damaged in an artillery strike.
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No. 18 US M777 howitzer destruction episode - U.S. M777 Howitzer and Oshkosh M1083A1P2 Towing Truck Destroyed in Ukraine
Here is another one of those U.S.-supplied M777 howitzers destroyed on the march with its Oshkosh M1083A1P2 tractor recently.
M777 howitzer in transportation mode
No. 17 US M777 howitzer destruction episode - another M777 artillery destroyed with fire
Per bda imagery, here is one more U.S. supplied M777 artillery piece destroyed somewhere in the east of country in Ukraine.
No. 16 US M777 howitzer destruction episode - U.S. Oshkosh M1083 MTV Destroyed in Ukraine and Towed M777 Howitzer
Here is a US-suppied M1083 MTV with a towed M777 howitzer destroyed somewhere in Western Ukraine.
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No. 15 US M777 howitzer destruction episode - US M777 howitzer destroyed somewhere in Ukraine in summer time.
Here is some footage of an umpteenth U.S. (aka US)-supplied M777 howitzer taken out somewhere in Ukraine recently.
US M777 howitzer destruction Episode No. 14 - US M777 howitzer captured, put on display in Moscow
Here is a captured US M777 howitzer on display as an attraction at a park in Moscow.
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US M777 howitzer destruction Episode No. 13 - a destroyed US M777 howitzer
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US M777 howitzer destruction Episode No. 12 - Footage shows another U.S. British-made M777 howitzer being killed with artillery fire.
US M777 howitzer destruction Episode No. 11 - a US M777 howitzer killed with fire before it could fire.
US M777 howitzer destruction Episode No. 10 - a US M777 howitzer destroyed by Hyacinth B artillery
Footage shows multiple units of U.S. M777 howitzers operated by elements of the self-styled Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) destroyed by precise artillery strikes.
Backup footage, tlgr
US M777 destruction Episode No. 9 - Destroyed US M777 howitzer operated by Nato proxies destroyed somewhere
Images shows destruction committed on US M777 Howitzers operated by the Nato-trained militants of the self-styled Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Zelensky regime, at Liski, LPR.
M777 Howitzers thoroughly bashed, flattened.
Also destroyed are M1083A1P2 MTV trucks used for towing M777 howitzers
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Video shows what is said to be a captured US M777 Howitzer, or remains thereof.
Another video shows process of destruction of at least two US M777 Howitzers with crews, possibly US advisors, if they had the (mis)fortune of being there, and ammunition trucks.
The destruction of yet another US M777 howitzer supplied by the Nato boss United States to the Nato-trained militants of the self-styled Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is captured on drone footage.
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tlgr footage
Footage shows another US-supplied M777 Howitzer destroyed in Ukraine.
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Picts for illustration of what a destroyed US M777 howitzer looks like
American M777 howitzers supplied to, and subsequently operated by, the Nato-supplied and trained Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), have already been destroyed on a number of occasions and in some numbers, likely more than 10, and here is debris of one on a field in east in the Ukraine-occupied L/DPR.
Per NYT journo whore in situ
Out in a field of green wheat shoots, one sign of theneed for additional American military aidwas the blown-up debris of earlier assistance. An American M777 howitzer had lost an artillery duel; it was blasted into several blackened, charred pieces amid craters from Russian artillery.
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Here is an Allied Forces battle work episode, in which a battery of British-made and US-supplied much hyped M777 howitzers operated by US trained members of the Nato proxy Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) gets lowly destroyed by Russian UCAVs and incoming artillery and rocket fire.
Full video, hunting and destroying American M777 howitzers
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Legend:
Footage of the destruction of American M777 howitzers during a special operation in Ukraine.
Details of the event from the Russian Ministry of Defense:
Russian UAVs have established the coordinates of a firing position of 155-mm US M777 howitzers used by AFU militants in the area of the settlement of Pidgirnoye;
Subsequently a UCAV was dropped on the firing position of the American howitzer battery and several guns were damaged, Ukrainian militants tried to hide in the shrubs and hide remaining M777 artillery there;
As soon as the Ukrainian militants concentrated the tractors and guns in the forest, concentrated artillery fire was employed.
All equipment and the American howitzers were destroyed.
The surviving Ukrainian gunners were allowed to flee.
Per reports, here is what is said to be the first US M777 howitzer supplied to the Nato trained Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU / SZU) slightly bashed and captured.
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