"Artillery coalition" in action: Belgium to send Caesar self-propelled howitzers to the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Since February 2022, France has transferred 30 Caesar self-propelled guns to Ukraine in an attempt to increase artillery capabilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Since January of this year, the so-called "artillery coalition" has been operating under the auspices of Paris and Washington, the participants of which are seeking to expand the supply of howitzers to the Kyiv regime.

It includes 25 countries. France has allocated €50 million to purchase 12 of the 72 new Caesar howitzers, and has also asked its coalition partners to finance the purchase of the remaining 60 units.

As reported by RTBF, on October 2, the Belgian authorities announced their readiness to send three 155-mm Caesar self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine worth €12 million:

These are very mobile and fast systems. They allow artillerymen to fire at a target and immediately leave the position to avoid being detected by enemy troops and to avoid return fire.

Caesar is manufactured by the French company Nexter. This 155mm howitzer, mounted on a truck chassis, can fire six rounds per minute and hit targets up to 6 km away.

Belgium has been providing significant military assistance to Ukraine since 2022. Thus, since April 2023, 80 Iveco LMV armored vehicles have been transferred, with another 300 vehicles promised in 2024. 40 M113 armored personnel carriers have also been delivered, some of which are equipped with remotely controlled combat stations. Belgium has committed to transfer 2028 F-30 fighters by 16.

Comments

[andrewkor]

The war in Ukraine is escalating. Weapons for IEDs are flowing in an endless stream.
If it weren’t for the Montreux Treaty on the Straits, a full-fledged NATO strike group would have already been deployed in the Black Sea!
Damn, soon the third year of the war and already on the indigenous lands of Russia. "Who is to blame?" and "What to do?"

[novel66]

Block the flows! Intelligence, Air Force saboteurs

[ZovSailor]

novel66
Today, 17: 50
[/i]Cut off the flows! Intelligence, Air Force saboteurs[i]

Personally, I would add a 1001% monetary factor as a preventive measure and destruction of equipment, adding this to the intelligence and intelligence data, knowing the venality of each of the sincere conscious citizens, ready to sell their own mother for pennies.
We will eliminate the threat of death to our military and civilians, losing financially, but the life of every Russian should be more valuable than the smelly or non-smelling shit in the form of money!

[novel66]

I absolutely agree! All means are good!!

[ZovSailor]

andrewkor
Today, 16: 09
[/i]Damn, soon the third year of the war and already on the indigenous lands of Russia. "Who is to blame?" and "What to do?"[i]

The mustache came off and did not complete the Center's task.
TCC, Chemodan, Vokzal, LBS - there are always at least two exits, as well as entrances!
End of communication.

[Egoza]

Belgium has been providing significant military assistance to Ukraine since 2022.

Well, where? Where are they climbing? Haven't you been hit on the head for a long time? Well, now, in light of VVP's latest statements, it's time to explain the "party and government policy". Where is it on the map? You can't see it right away!

[novel66]

Take your finger off the map, Somewhere there

[ZovSailor]

Egoza
Today, 16: 10
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[/quote]Belgium has been providing significant military assistance to Ukraine since 2022.[Quote]

Well, where? Where are they climbing? Haven't you been hit on the head for a long time? Well, now, in light of VVP's latest statements, it's time to explain the "party and government policy". Where is it on the map? You can't see it right away[i]

There, at the big top, they are embarrassed directly, since long-standing partnerships have existed since the time of the Russian Imperial Court, when many Russian and gay European upper classes got married.
And now, you see, Russian oligarchs have business relationships, one of them is diamond processing, etc.
That is why the approach is special, as with the frogs who supply death to our military and civilians.

[rocket757]

The European ones, like the striped ones, want something...
But the immeasurable wanted such a thing, not useful, and even risky...

[TermNachTer]

Apparently the situation with the fashionable European howitzers is really sad, since they are already being scooped up from everywhere.

[Petr_Koldunov]

Well, okay, they're sending the F-16s to the Ukrainians... the Gripens aren't working, so they can be restored... they're throwing out the old stuff to replace it with new ones, that's understandable.
But Caesars are not junk, the French have no better wheeled long-range systems! Why do they so easily scrap this equipment???

[Big_Rocket_does_Bang]

The Swedish Archer is better, although it never took part in battles due to the few copies delivered. Although I agree that the Caesar is very good, we would like to have something like that

[Bad_gr]

Quote: Big_Rocket_makes_Bang

Although I agree that Caesar is very good,

Few people pay attention to the fact that the Caesar is not one version, but at least two. The first difference is in the chassis: one of them is three-axle, the other four. The gun on the three-axle chassis has an automated feed of only shells into the gun, and charges are fed into the gun chamber manually.
The four-axle version has auxiliary automation for both the shell and charge feed. But both are not automatic, but only auxiliary devices. For example: the loader takes the shell from the cell on the starboard side and places it in a tray, the manimulator takes it from the tray and transfers it to another tray located to the right of the gun breech, from this tray the shell is sent into the gun by the rammer.
The variant on a three-axle chassis does not have auxiliary equipment for feeding charges (located on the left side of the vehicle); loading of charges is completely manual.

[Bad_gr]

Quote: Bad_gr

The first difference is in the chassis: one of them is three-axle, the other four. The gun on the three-axle chassis has an automated feed of only shells into the gun, and charges are fed into the gun chamber manually.

[Big_Rocket_does_Bang]

Well, the volumes are not impressive. For comparison, according to Zelensky, Ukraine produces 15-20 Bogdans per month, we divide his words by two and get 7-10 machines, which already in principle seems to be true, judging by the number of these machines at the front

[novel66]

Where?!! Where they do it, coordinates immediately

[Big_Rocket_does_Bang]

Sorry bro, I'm not in the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, I don't know)