Russia will soon deploy the latest howitzers in the Northern Military District, which borders Finland and Norway.
Sergei Chemezov, CEO of Rostec, revealed the news in an interview published by the Russian news agency RIA on Wednesday (December 27).
He said that the newest Soyuz-SV self-propelled howitzer (Coalition-SV) has completed tests and is starting mass production. The first batch will be delivered by the end of 2023.
Self-propelled howitzers, also known as self-propelled guns or self-propelled guns.
"I think that this new howitzer will soon be deployed there (in the Northern Military District), because there is a need for this howitzer with an advantageous range over Western artillery," Chemezov said. ”
From January 1, 2021, Russia** Putin will be mainly responsible for the Northern Fleet in the Russian Arctic, elevating it to an independent military administrative unit "on an equal footing" with Russia's Western, Southern, Central and Eastern Military Districts, with cross-service and strategic regional command authority, and one of its jurisdictions, Murmansk, borders Norway and Finland to the west.
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow has accused the "collective West" of waging a war against Russia and warned that Moscow would amass troops on its western border after Finland joined the NATO military alliance.
TASS reported earlier this month that a Soyuz-SV self-propelled howitzer has been deployed to the Ukrainian front.
A howitzer with a firing range of up to 70 km, armed with a modern 152 gun of 88 mm caliber, with a maximum rate of fire of more than 10 rounds per minute, fully automatic aiming, target selection, navigation.