Ukrainian troops using Cold War-era French heavy mortars on frontline
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2022
- Ukrainian troops have been pictured firing French heavy mortars on the frontline in the east of Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers have been using the French MO-120 RT (rifled towed) mortar at Russian positions in the frontline near Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region of the country.
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Belgium, after scratching its collective head thinking what can we send them, delivered 4 to Ukraine. They may be obsolete, but I think anyone near where the 120mm shell lands may disagree.
I dont think they are obsolete at all.
They are still in active service and 8000 meter range is great for a morter system.
@@studentaviator3756 add 13 to 15 with rocket boost. I pray for the russian conscripts to not be near this hellhound when it lands .
400 may be more helpful.
Not as obsolete as the Orcs on the receiving end 😆
@@M3ganwillslay I wish it despatches 1000's of Orcs!
We had those mortars in the Frecn foreign legion, they were great bits of kit.
You were in the FFL?
@@scarletcrusade77 , 5 years from 1983 - 1988, I served the minimum.
@@kevinfoster926 Any notable deployments?
@@scarletcrusade77 Chad with the 6eme REG.....................minefield clearance, also 2 years in Djibouti.
We have to give them more weapons so that the Russians run out of resources.
Hey as long as they work that's the main thing.
Exactly, that's the point. Doesn't matter how old it is - if it's in good condition and can be of help to Ukrainian army - it should be delivered. The more we help with weapons and humanitarian aid, the faster russian occupants will go home to their prison of a country.
Definitely HEAVY mortar, I have never seen anything like it. FANTASTIC 😲😲😍😍⭐⭐
We need more weapons for Ukraine.
It certainly looks badass, but I think they have a dire need in more heavy and longer range weapons right now. Not even mentioning tanks, aviation and other stuff. Hopefully it will be included in the future, sooner (better) or later.
God Bless Ukraine !!!
We ask God for speedy peace
Impressive.
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Slava Ukraina 💪💪💪💪💪🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Geroyam slava
Let's all support this strong nation together
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We must help Ukraine to help this war
French operational manual
“Never interrupt the enemy making a mistake.”- Napoleon
Russian instruction
“ ignore tampon instructions. Put in the new hole.”
Why can't we provide what is necessary for Ukraine's victory over Putin?
Lmao didn't look like tampons helped much when HIMARS blew up Wagner PMC's barracks earlier. Losses were so great that the russians never even talked about the approximate number ever again. So yeah, even these Cold War-era French heavy mortars are going to be used for the greater good.
We must continue to support them or we will all be captive
@@felishalynch3280 yes, not only government officials should participate, regular people can influence their officials too. In some way, I guess it's pretty poetic - democracy should be used to save the future of democratic governments.
Thats a beast 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦👍
This is the most important weapon for Ukraine, the only way Ukrainians can win.
Himars and the Ukrainian military have shown themselves very well, we can increase support for Ukraine and speed up the victory.
The collective Western Militaries have some serious kit. Guided, rocket assisted 120 mm mortar rounds that are accurate up to 15,000 meters or 9.3 miles?! Russia has no idea how out matched they really are.
Putin is not aware of the real state of affairs at the front
Sometimes I read the Russian news for fun, but they are sure that their weapons are the best in the world and nothing can surpass them. How nice that NATO successfully proves them wrong. Frankly, it is scary to imagine how much the Russians believe in their propaganda.
@@anhconroy6172 Russia is a state of total lies. The Russians have been killing critical thinking for 20 years
@@Ashley-Paucek Yes, you're right.
True, but when is this stuff going to get to Ukraine though? I honestly can't wrap my mind around the fact that the West is still being so selective in their military aid, and that is after 10 months of Ukrainians proving they can and will use everything they will recieve to the best of their abilities.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦
Definitely better than throwing rocks at your enemies
But America can provide more modern weapons.
True, while also not really. "Better than rocks" won't cut it when the occupying forces have an almost infinite supply of artillery shells compared to yours.That said, I bet that Ukrainians are thankful for any help given, but the West should definitely increase it's military support, because it clearly decreases the time of Ukraine paying for the values of civilized world with it's sons' and daughters' blood.
However, we must grow our support for Ukraine
This war, nasty though it is, will give us a good insight into must have effective weapon systems!
To some extent, I agree with you, but it is very sad for the Ukrainians who have to suffer daily from Russian missiles and shelling. This is the price the world pays for freedom from Russia and its dictatorship
@@anhconroy6172 yes it’s very sad for the Ukrainians! It boggles my mind that this could happen, I hate this war!
Yeah and hopefully it will show other tyrants like putin that it is not worth the time and resources to start a war like this. That is if the West finally amps up their military aid.
We have to help Ukrainians with guns more and more
@@felishalynch3280 Yes. And not only guns, humanitarian aid is important too. Helping the injured soldiers by giving them the best care they can have - great thing to do too.
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Excellent. Cheap, and practical in that environment. A big pickup could tow one just fine. Shoot off a few shots and move. Easy to use close range fire support, just at 5 miles range.
True, mobility matters a lot nowadays, considering both sides are using commercial and military UAVs. That said, I wish the West started giving newer technologies, not the Cold War-era ones. Although russians are using the Soviet-era equipment too, they have a huge stockpile of it.
@@jeraldkozey6095 Moscow really has huge reserves of old military iron and a lot of cheap cannon fodder.
The Ukrainian army is much more professional, but it lacks weapons
@@evgeniybastrykov exactly the case, yes. Hopefully the technological superiority will win this war, while the West will pressure the russian economy further.
However, we must grow our support for Ukraine
@@mariannabatz9733 Curious how effectively Lend-Lease works
what is the advantage of spin stabilization over fin stabilization for mortars
Do you mean in the barrel or to adjust azimuth?
Normaly in smothbore guns you use fins on the projectile to hold it stable. I think today judt used on tanks. A rifled towed barrel gives the projectile the spin for a stable flight.
This barrels are undersized which creates more friction between projectile and barrels --> lower projectile velocity
Simple it's more precise on long distances. This piece is accurate to throw a grenade on a distance of 9 km within 1/2 m2 with a well trained crew. Besides that it's also capable of firing close distance ammo. The clockworks in those grenades are set by the rotation of the grenade.
The best mortars in the world. Those who are delivered to Ukraine are not the upgraded versions with a GPS VRC. However, we used them in Libanon and their performance is outstanding.
The weapons significantly slowed down the advance of the troops. Russian soldiers do not even have time to get to the front line, as they die. And this is very good for Ukraine, and for the world.
Yes, I am very happy to hear such news and I hope that next year the Ukrainians will be able to completely destroy the Russians and take back all their territories
This strategy will lead Ukraine to victory, but they need help, lots of help
Yes, guns help them a lot, they make the Russians sick.
The major point of subtitles is having enough time to read them @Forces News 👎
So old but the video is like a sales pitch. 😅
Doesn't matter how old it is, the important thing is it works as it should and can be used to defend Ukraine. On the other hand, imo the West should increase it's support, especially with long-range weapons, artillery and AFVs, that's the most important thing now.
In any case, our support is important to them
Yeah you're right cuz today Ukraine is fighting for a democratic world and it must win
The West has the opportunity to supply Ukraine with the weapons they ask for, we must contribute to the victory of Ukraine, because they are fighting for freedom.
It seems to me that the Ukrainians have proved that they can conduct combat operations and are able to fight with Western weapons. And the fact that Ukrainians can stand up to an enemy like Russia confirms that Ukraine is ready to be part of NATO.
I agree with u, but I guess Ukraine needs more weapons so that it can not only resist but also win. Russia is a huge country with enormous resources. It cannot be allowed to win
@@thersawilliamson7804 Russia’s victory in this war will signal that others can do what they want and it is dangerous
@@thersawilliamson7804 Russia is going to fight with human resources, while Ukraine must win with NATO weapons
@@max_bl The collective West must not allow chaos to happen, so everything must be done to defeat the terrorists
Western weapons for the Ukrainian army began to arrive for a reason. After all, now we see that for more than six months the Russian army has been only retreating, and this is a good indicator.
For sure. Retreating and losing the captured areas. A big part of this success lies on HIMARS and other rocket systems, which helped to disable russian supply lines. While that is a good thing, russians are learning on their mistakes though. Which means they've adapted to HIMARS range and now Ukrainians really need a more powerful long-range missiles.
Ukraine is able to fight successfully with a large number of Western weapons
Our support trembles to be colossal
I am very glad that we started to give more modern and effective weapons to Ukrainians. But I would like more and faster, because the war has dragged on, and I believe that the Ukrainians are not only defending their territory, but also the entire civilized world from Russia. Glory to Ukraine!
The more and faster we provide weapons to Ukraine, the more Ukrainian lives we will save.
Only more weapons can help. More weapons and more sanctions for Russia
Ukraine today represents the entire free and democratic world against which Russia is waging war. Putin must not be allowed to win, more weapons must be provided to Ukraine, and Putin must be held accountable.
@@leisakovacek8965 yes, I want it too!
Russia must stop threatening the whole world forever.
The supply of Western weapons turned the tide of the war. It was three or four days before Ukraine was fully occupied at the outset. But weapons played a decisive role.
Yes, and it's very satisfying! I hope that next year the Ukrainians will be able to destroy the Russians!
I don't think Ukraine would've been fully occupied in three or four days if not for Western help, don't forget that the courage of people who weilded those weapons means a lot too. But surely the importance of the latter cannot be overstated. I just hope that in the months or even weeks to come, Europe and US will increase their military and humanitarian aid, that is all that matters now.
I think we should help Ukraine even more with weapons so that Russia will leave its territory as soon as possible. In addition, the supply of our weapons has greatly increased the success of the Ukrainians at the front
If Ukraine wins, the whole world wins
@@marta_777 Democracy must win. And the rest of the potential warlords should know what awaits them
Yes, it's right. Ua army is good and we must help then to win this war
Most of them are from american stocks the usmc took them out of service 5 to6 years ago
Western weapons have long shown superiority over Russian weapons. As well as the ability to conduct combat operations Ukrainian soldiers. It’s a very effective combination, I think.
We saw the result. Western weapons proved very good in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army destroyed warehouses and barracks is really better quality than quantity.
We need to provide more weapons for Ukraine, we see that it gives results.
@@robertoschmitt3655 yes, I think so!
@@robertoschmitt3655 more weapons and as fast as possible
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We see that the Himars have changed the situation at the front, now many warehouses in Russia are suffering.
I hope the US government will increase aid to Ukraine
We see that our supplies have changed the course of the war, which means that we need to help more, and Ukraine will win faster.
I agree with you. We see the result and how courageous Ukrainians fight for their freedom
@@max_bl I think we should continue to support Ukraine, because they are very courageous.
@@robertoschmitt3655 I agree with you. They can still make their inventions. They are both bold and intelligent. I think they will be reliable allies for us in the future. They are still reliable allies.
@@max_bl Ukrainians successfully counterattack, but only more weapons can help them
So we need to make Ukraine great, ua army is fighting for our values
Himars have shown themselves as the best in this Putin's war, why can't we have more weapons?
I don't understand it either! We need to get more good weapons to Ukraine as soon as possible, so they can end the war faster.
@@anhconroy6172 the more weapons to Ukraine, the less civilian deaths
Ukraine seeks to defend its independence, and we must help it in this.
If Ukrainian forces can destroy missile and UAV launch points, it will make their tasks much easier
If there are long-range missiles they can destroy missile warehouses. Or factories that make them
Yes, that's why we have to give them more weapons as soon as possible. Why didn't NATO do this back in the spring?
@@anhconroy6172 No one believed. Everyone thought that Ukraine would fail
For sure. This is what Ukrainians have been saying for some time now. Russians adapted to HIMARS range, so now Ukraine is in dire need of long-range weapons to hit those bombers before they even enter the airspace of the country.
They must endure and destroy these terrorists
The headquarters of PMC "Wagner" in Popasna, Luhansk region, came under the attacks of the "Haimars". Russia did not say the number of victims, more weapons are needed.
Ukraine has already shown its horror for freedom and is fighting to the last, we must help Ukraine.
I hope that the West will supply Ukraine with more high-precision weapons, because they have shown a high level of use of these weapons. The Wagner PMCs have suffered huge losses, which they are ashamed to admit
It's too bad this weapon wasn't handed over back in the spring. Then the Russians would have been destroyed long ago.
@@anhconroy6172 No one believed in Ukraine and the Ukrainian army, but they proved that they can fight effectively
@@max_bl Yes, they repelled most of the major offensives without our help at the beginning of the war, and I admire that.
Russian troops are defenseless against himers, for example
@@anhconroy6172 and even now Ukraine unfortunately does not have enough weapons
The more we help with weapons, the faster Russia will lose. Not only Ukraine, but also Europe and the United States are interested in this.
i saw an interview with a former american ranger who is there i blindly believe, people die at the front and in kiev western weapons are stolen, very good soldiers with born style but with old commanders cooaudiovati by some western military now there would be 30% fewer victims among Ukrainian soldiers. I feel bad for the guys at the front and yesterday a video of the sun xon journalist exchanging 2 jokes with bahakmut and the Ukrainian soldier tells him we have few weapons, it's always been like this here 2 classes us the one for slaughter and in Kiev where they do business. Commander armory barracks foreign fighters stole weapons every day, reported to the SBU no one has ever done anything.
I don't trust the news on principle. Where is the guarantee that this is true? we can only guess about something, but it is unlikely that it is. Perhaps the man is working for Russian propaganda. Unfortunately, there are many such people among Europeans and Americans. There are traitors everywhere
Wtf is this a Chinese pro-putin bot lol
@@anhconroy6172 i dont truste too. I check moore info for undstd. But that was a usa marine foreign legion. He havent interes to talk a wrong story from himself.and to say that in the beginning there was a lot of disorganization is not hard to believe
This is all speculation, there are no such facts. We must support Ukraine, fight together for a democratic world
Cool! How do they stack up against Russia's heavy bombers?
How those bombers stack to being blown on runways?
Well if they could penetrate airspace
How quickly Russia can lose depends on our supplies 💙💛
Russia already lost, so we must hold Putin accountable, and then there will be less evil on the planet
If we had acted quickly, the victims would have been less, and Putin would have been defeated.
Of course they had to replace the white flags with High Explosive, but when done, they appear to be effective... who knew!
Well, they're former USMC. What are you implying?
@@adrien5834 Utmost respect for the USMC. No it was a dig at the French... A long standing meme, which is not true of course, but being English... well I have to dont I!
@@Mark_Bickerton Sure. Anyway, we sold them the mortars without any white flags, must be a Marine thing. Maybe they were commemorating their 1941 Philippines campaign.
@@Mark_Bickerton Average Virgin Cringe Brainless Fatherless Anti France Troll Fanboy taking Copium over here ⬆️
Why are we silent and think so long with the supply of weapons, because children are dying there from Putin's hands.
Russia advances. Western propaganda gets ever more hysterical.
Russia is going backwards. Throughout the war, it is only retreating.
... Advances where exactly, big guy? They've lost Kherson, the only administrative centre they've captured since February, thanks to HIMARS and other rocket systems. And Bakhmut - they've been trying to capture it for months now, still couldn't even enter the city. So what exactly are you talking about, or are you just a bot?
Are you serious? You support the murder and genocide of Ukrainian civilians. Are you kidding me?
@@andersonlangosh6386 Russia's army is incapable of doing anything at all. They are nobody.
@@felishalynch3280 nah, you can't underestimate them. They are great in two things - destroying civilian lives and getting killed themselves. Hopefully they will do much more of latter.
Don't worry, Lancets will soon visit there😂
They'll visit a French training video?
mobile, with 3 minutes to deploy. i doubt it. keep coping comrade
The lancet will only puncture a tire anyway. Replace it and back to work.
@@MacDaddy8200 ohh really 😱, is that why Ukrain is now running without electricity 🤣. We all know what lancets and shahed drones did to Ukranian infrastructures and weapons 🤣keep crying
@@MacDaddy8200 even a mavic with a granade can take out a tyre🤣 in what year are u living my friend , the whole world knows what their kamikaze drones did and doing to Ukrainian infrastructures 🤌🤌