[skeeter]

Shouldn’t Ukrainisn forces already know how to use 80 year old technology?

[BobL]

“Shouldn’t Ukrainisn forces already know how to use 80 year old technology?”

Unlike Russian/Ukrainian artillery, ours requires a Computer Science degree to operate...because it’s sleek!

[buwaya]

Its not 80 years old. Thats a new-ish gun as these things go, from 2005.
And every gun system plus its fire control can be very different. One can know how to work A gun but not necessarily THAT gun. And then there are battery and battalion level fire control and operational arrangements

[Chainmail]

Not an artilleryman among you! - No matter which 155 they are sending (my guess is that they will be our excess M-198s), our fire control and sighting systems work on a different azimuth scale than the Russian/Ukrainian systems.

They use a 6000 mil (16.7 mils. degree of angle) system and we use a 6400 mil (17.8 mils/degree of angle) system - so, yes, they have to be trained and not mix the systems.

I was in artillery for 27 years and one of my claims to fame was training US personnel on the Soviet D30 122mm howitzer. I had my own captured version several years back and my own Marine gun crew to man it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yes, that’s why the training is only a week. Familiarization with the specific equipment.

[wardaddy]

Zelensky is George Washington
How could he possibly know modern tech skeet?

Get with the agora prop ya hear

Or are u an evil putinista

.....I knew it

/s