British troops are part of NATO's largest every artillery exercise in Lapland
A Finnish artillery team fires a K9 mobile howitzer during the NATO ‘Dynamic Front’ exercise in Rovaniemi, Finland , it is also a flexing of the West’s military muscle and a signal of the interoperability of allied armed forces after Joe Biden gave the green light for long-range ATACMS missiles to be fired inside Russia.
Capable of mounting shoot-and-scoot attacks, the self-propelled 33-tonne guns were branded a battlefield game-changer by one British Army officer at the Rovajarvi firing range. Mounted on an articulated hauler, the guns combine long-range precision and rapid deployment to make them a valuable frontline asset.
When the daily fire was halved, the death toll shot up to more than 100 Ukrainian soldiers killed each day and at least 1,000 wounded. A short drive and a treacherous hike over ice-covered paths away, Finnish wheeled 155-mm K9 howitzers are being put through their paces, while a drone buzzes overhead.
Sergeant Antti-Matti Puisto, who is training conscripts, described how K9 crews can be ready to man the artillery systems after three months basic training, and shrugged off the -4“That would be something that the NATO allies can learn from us, that they come from more southern places to train here,” he said.“The situation in the world has changed during the last 20 years,” he said.
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