DECRYPTION – The challenge of artillery combat is to impose heavy losses on the adversary to break his lines.
Six Caesar are used in combat in Ukraine out of the 76 available to France. On social networks, first images of these artillery guns firing 155 mm shells have also begun to circulate. With a range of 40 km, precise and self-propelled, that is to say installed on a wheeled truck chassis, the Caesars are the pride of the Army. One to two weeks of training were necessary to allow the Ukrainian soldiers to master its use, at least the basics. Caesars have a reputation for being complex. Despite their symbolic number, they help to rebalance the balance of power on the ground against Russian firepower. They complete the delivery of the American M777 155 mm howitzers too, with a range of 25 to 28 km. 108 were promised. “More than 80 are used in combat every day,” they say at the Pentagon. Other countries, such as Slovakia or the Czech Republic, have also delivered weapons. Bratislava offered for example two Zuzana
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