'Canada is Sending Ukraine Excalibur Precision-Guided, Extended-Range Artillery Shells'
https://sofrep.com/news/canada-is-sending-ukraine-excalibur-precision-guided-extended-range-artillery-shells/
6 M777s have been sent by Canada plus they have been training the Ukies in their use. Guess who else has been training the Ukies for a while and now doing this in Germany? The freakin’ Florida National Guard!
Australia has sent 4 M777s to Ukraine.
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A Florida National Guard unit that evacuated Ukraine in February has a new mission: continuing to train Ukrainian troops, this time outside of Ukraine.
The 160 members of the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team were recently reunited with their Ukrainian partners, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Friday.
The Guard soldiers first arrived in Ukraine late last year, and still have months to go on their original deployment orders.
“So they’ll do the bulk of it,” Kirby said. “But I’m not going to go so far as to say that all of it will be done just by the Florida National Guard.”
Germany will be one of the host countries, Kirby added, declining to name the other. The Guardsmen will train Ukrainian troops on equipment sent in two recent aid packages, including radars and tactical vehicles.
Canada’s Minister of National Defence Anita Anand confirmed Thursday that Canada is leading training on the M777 howitzer systems that both the U.S. and Canada have sent to Eastern Europe.
As of Friday, Kirby said, a second group of 50 Ukrainian troops is receiving week-long howitzer training, after which they’ll return home and train their own troops to operate the artillery systems. The howitzers began arriving in Ukraine over the past week.
https://www.defensenews.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/04/29/florida-guardsmen-heading-to-germany-to-continue-training-ukrainian-troops/
Good for 20 mi
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against Orc artillery batteries with 2x the range.