The Bohdana: Ukraine's Secret Weapon of War

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  @megaprojects9649 · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @stalkingtiger777 · 2 years ago

  Whoever had the foresight to preserve the prototype should get a medal.

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  @elissross7304 · 2 years ago

  Makes me feel a bit proud that a country in war chose Tatra chassis for their howitzer. <br>There is no better truck for it and Tatra has long history of wheeled howitzers.

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  @mikebikekite1 · 2 years ago

  &quot;Shoot and scoot&quot; does not mean getting out of range after firing (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBuFEpZeeH4&amp;t=906">15:06</a>). It simply means moving from the original firing position so return fire from the enemy won&apos;t hit you.

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  @mikeharvey9184 · 2 years ago

  And Taiwan is over in the corner whispering to South Korea &quot;Hey, you think you could license those designs and build us some of those?&quot;

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  @coconutsmarties · 2 years ago

  <b>&quot;You&apos;re not my real dad&quot;</b> is fucking genius. Well played, scriptwriter.

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  @Optimistic_Hobo · 2 years ago

  &quot;Hey, remember all those Toyotas with heavy machine guns and things bolted on? Yeah, what if we scaled it up and used precision engineering instead of a dude with an angle grinder?&quot;<br>Yup, soldiers win fire fights, tanks win battles, but artillery win wars.

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  @gansior4744 · 2 years ago

  I think the more important part of the package is their artillery app. They use it with every artillery piece, new and old and it helps them make more accurate shots, faster and with the use of drone

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  @vong4518 · 2 years ago

  You had a slight minor mistake on your map at around 17min… Sweden is already a NATO member

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  @papparocket · 2 years ago

  The US and other countries have for years made precision guidance kits (PGK) for 155m shells that replace the standard fuze with a GPS guidance system and small fins that are able to give otherwise dumb artillery rounds the precision and first round kill capacity approaching that of the $100k Excalibur 155mm round. The PGK itself only runs about $7.5k per unit. A base bleed 155mm round would add about $2k to the price, and a rocket assisted round about $5K-$10k. So for the price of a single Excalibur round, Ukraine could fire 5-10 GPK rounds. &nbsp;There would be no need for a ranging round. In fact in a German test that fired 9 GPK tipped 155m rounds all 9 landed within 10m, 8 out of 9 rounds landed within 3m of the target, 5 within a single meter, and 1 went through the roof of the old clapped out SUV being used as a target from a distance of 40 km. No corrections were applied between rounds. All were simply programmed with the same GPS coordinates.<br>Besides being cheaper than the Excalibur, PGKs are simpler and faster to make and so many more artillery rounds could be fired with this level of accuracy and precision.<br>If enough of these PGK could be delivered to Ukraine, within a few weeks Russia wouldn&apos;t have any artillery pieces or heavy mortars left since the combination of anti battery radar and these guided rounds means that every time Russia&apos;s shorter range artillery pieces fired a round, a Bohdana (or Caesar, Archer or Panzerhaubitze 2000) with longer range than the Russians would drop a guided round down their throats and then scoot just in case Russian happened to have an artillery battery within range.

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  @NicholasMati · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBuFEpZeeH4&amp;t=194">3:14</a>: Crimea is a peninsula. The isthmus connecting it to the mainland is the Isthmus of Perekop (according to Wikipedia).

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  @whos-your-favorite-villain · 2 years ago (edited)

  I think it&apos;s important to point out a few things.<br>1. Zmiyiniy Island is a very small island, but its a pretty large target. More importantly, it is a stationary target (duh).<br>2. The island is fairly flat and very baren. There is practically nothing there, and more importantly, there is no natural shelter.<br>3. The island is just within range.<br>4. This is perhaps the most important part: there really is no air infrastructure on the island and Russians would never commit an real warship to the task of protecting the island. (After what has happened to the flagship of the Black Sea fleet)<br>5. Bohdana is a fast maneuverable thing, for an artillery price that is. It can be fiered from Ukrainian controlled territory, with plenty of ground support (spotters, camouflage, correction, local guides)<br>All things together make Bohdana, or a similar spg, a perfect tool for bombardment of Zmiyiniy island. The fact that it was so successful only prooves that if tou ahve a perfect tool for the job, the job will get done. To put it bluntly, the russians were a big beetle, sitting on a bullseye of a target of an olimpic shooter.<br>Bombardment of Zmiyiniy is a good real-world test, but it should only be treated as a proof of concept. It should not be used to predict future battlefield success. <br><br>Though I&apos;d say Fuck Yeah Ukrainians!

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