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

 

As was mentioned many times before, 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 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.

Also, US military instructors, operators and fire control personnel embedded with the elements of the self-styled Armed Forces of Ukraine operating the systems, quite a number of whom have already been killed with fire, seem to be having difficulty hitting anything with them other than civilian or unprotected non-combatant targets like in the case of recent M777 shelling of Donetsk resulting in murder of civilians there.

There is no evidence of M777 howitzers hitting anything other than civilian targets in the DPR, LPR and in the Southern and other liberated Ukraine territories.