Smooth from the landfills of the M-46 and SAU guns: how the Armed Forces are destroyed by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

In June 2024, the Russians lost three times more artisystems than in December 2023, journalists wrote. At the same time, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation began to bring to the war Soviet rations and buy shells that cannot be released on their own. The Armed Forces began to destroy Russian artillery at a much higher rate than it was in the first months of the war.

This is evidenced by the losses of guns, which the General Staff reports, and the appearance on the battlefield of Soviet rarities of the 70 years-the M-46 guns, which were previously rusty at landfills. Forbes published an article that investigated information about the situation with different types of artillery used by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the war in Ukraine.

Journalists collected reports of OSINT Analytors who tracked the state of Russian landfills, which stood by old Soviet artillery, a video with the movement of guns to the front line and statistics of the Armed Forces General Staff about successful work. Analysts emphasize that their data is not accurate, but they make it possible to estimate the rate of loss of guns of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The HighMarsed Osinter analysis shows that the losses of Russian artisms are growing, so the Russians had to remove the old M-46 guns from storage, which were still displayed in museums and rusty in the fields. He made two conclusions from that. First, M-46 shoot 130 mm caliber shells, which are produced in North Korea and Iran, that is, the Kremlin has a shortage of shells.

Secondly, the M-46, which was used in the 50's of the last century, should replace the more modern long-range guns that Russia has lost in the war. That is, as a result, this means that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has a lack of artillery and shells, written for Forbes. The article shows several figures on Russian artillery.

As of the beginning of the invasion of the Russian Federation, approximately, there should be 19 thousand guns of different types, wrote on the portal of the British Royal Joint Institute of Defense Research (Royal United Services Institute, Rusi). After the invasion of Moscow, she removed from the storage of 1. 5 thousand SAUs, which were to join up to 2. 5 thousand, which were on the go, installed HighMarsed. In the war they did not notice so many guns.

Instead, in February 2024, the analytical center counted 4 thousand units. of this type of weapon, of which 1 thousand are self -propelled artillery installations (SAU). The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces reports on tens and hundreds of Russian guns, which are destroyed on the battlefield. Analysts point out that it is difficult to confirm this type of technique because it stands far from the front line.

For example, the command reports the destruction of more than 15,000 artisms, while Oryx analysts - 1 thousand. At the end of 2023, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation suddenly began to lose an unexpected large number of guns, according to Forbes. Infographic, created by the Ministry of Finance "on the basis of open data, showed that in June 2024 the Russians lost three times more artisystems than in December 2023 (1400 vs. 500).

Analysts propose to pay attention not to numbers, but to the trend - by the sudden destruction of artisystems of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation increased rapidly. There are several reasons that lead to the Russian Federation losing an advantage on the battlefield: HIMARS missiles, FPV-auctions, and the probable appearance of a Ukrainian analogue of Lacet's lancer ammunition, summed up on the Forbes portal.