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152 mm Weapon Systems

Weapon systems and military equipment tagged 152 mm.

8 weapon systems

2A36 Giatsint-B, 152 mm towed field gun, Artillery

Artillery2A36 Giatsint-B152 mm towed field gunSide: Ukraine / Armenia / ArtsakhBuilt: Perm Machine-Building Plant / Soviet UnionThe 2A36 Giatsint-B is a Soviet 152 mm towed field gun built for long-range indirect fire and counter-battery work. Its 49-caliber barrel gives it greater reach than many older Soviet 152 mm systems, and Ukrainian forces have fielded the type during the Russia-Ukraine War, including likely Finnish 152 K 89 guns supplied from Finnish stocks.

D-20, 152 mm towed gun-howitzer, Artillery

ArtilleryD-20152 mm towed gun-howitzerSide: Russia / Ukraine / Armenia / Artsakh / Houthi-aligned forces / Yemeni government and coalition forcesBuilt: No. 9 Uralmash Plant / Soviet UnionThe D-20 is a Soviet 152 mm towed gun-howitzer developed in the early Cold War for divisional and army-level fire support. Its split-trail carriage, semi-automatic breech, and standard 17.4 km range made it a long-lived Warsaw Pact artillery system, and Ukrainian forces have documented captured Russian D-20s being turned back against Russian units during the Russia-Ukraine War.

2S3 Akatsiya, 152 mm tracked self-propelled howitzer, Artillery

Artillery2S3 Akatsiya152 mm tracked self-propelled howitzerSide: Armenia / Artsakh / RussiaBuilt: Uraltransmash / Soviet Union / RussiaThe 2S3 Akatsiya is a Soviet 152 mm tracked self-propelled howitzer built around the 2A33 gun and a turreted armored chassis. Designed for divisional fire support and accepted into service in 1971, it remains relevant in the Russia-Ukraine War because Russian forces still use legacy Akatsiya batteries for indirect fires despite newer self-propelled artillery types.

152 mm SpGH DANA, 152 mm wheeled self-propelled gun-howitzer, Artillery

Artillery152 mm SpGH DANA152 mm wheeled self-propelled gun-howitzerSide: Azerbaijan / UkraineBuilt: ZTS Dubnica nad Vahom / Excalibur Army / Czechoslovakia / Slovakia / Czech RepublicThe 152 mm SpGH DANA is a Czechoslovak wheeled self-propelled gun-howitzer built around a Tatra 8x8 chassis, a semi-automatic loading system, and a 152 mm gun compatible with Soviet-pattern ammunition. Azerbaijani DANA M1 systems were reported in use during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh fighting, while Czech-supplied DANA and DANA M2 howitzers later gave Ukrainian forces mobile tube artillery that could shoot and displace faster than towed 152 mm guns.

OF61 base-bleed projectile, 152 mm base-bleed artillery projectile, Munitions

MunitionsOF61 base-bleed projectile152 mm base-bleed artillery projectileSide: UnknownBuilt: Plant named after Y.M. Sverdlov / RussiaThe OF61 base-bleed projectile, normally marked 3OF61, is a Russian Federation-developed 152 mm high-explosive fragmentation round built for long-barrel artillery such as the 2A65 Msta-B. Its steel-bodied base-bleed design pushes the projectile to about 29 km, putting it among the longer-range Russian 152 mm shells in service.

152 mm round for Giatsint howitzer, 152 mm Frag-HE artillery round, Munitions

Munitions152 mm round for Giatsint howitzer152 mm Frag-HE artillery roundSide: UnknownBuilt: Transmobile Ltd. / BulgariaTransmobile's 152 mm round for Giatsint howitzer is a Bulgarian-made Frag-HE artillery round advertised for the 2A36 Giatsint-B and 2A37 Giatsint-S guns. The product page gives the round's caliber, type, firing range, projectile weight, muzzle velocity, and fuze type.

OF45 high-explosive projectile, 152 mm high-explosive artillery projectile, Munitions

MunitionsOF45 high-explosive projectile152 mm high-explosive artillery projectileSide: UnknownBuilt: Soviet ordnance industry / Soviet Union / RussiaThe OF45 high-explosive projectile is the standard 152 mm separate-loading HE round documented for the Soviet/Russian 2A65 Msta-B howitzer. Source pages describe it as a Russian 152 mm HE-fragmentation, steel-bodied projectile and list it at 43.56 kg with an 823 m/s muzzle velocity and a 24.7 km maximum range.

OF-45 High-Explosive Fragmentation Projectile, 152 mm high-explosive fragmentation projectile, Munitions

MunitionsOF-45 High-Explosive Fragmentation Projectile152 mm high-explosive fragmentation projectileSide: UnknownBuilt: Soviet / Russian ordnance program / Soviet Union / RussiaThe OF-45 is a Soviet/Russian 152 mm high-explosive fragmentation projectile in the separate-loading artillery family developed from 1966 onward. Forecast International identifies it among the rounds fired by the 2A64 cannon on the 2S19 Msta-S, and open references describe the shell as a 43.56 kg round with a 24.7 km range from that gun.