Russia Runs Low on Precision Guided Munitions: Ukraine Receives 155mm Howitzers & Possible Advantage

Video Above: The War in Donbas

By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

In the initial weeks of the war, Russia’s heavy missile and artillery bombardment of Ukrainian civilian areas revealed what appeared to be a deliberate effort to “terrorize” and even “torture” the Ukrainian people, by murdering children, exploding apartment buildings and indiscriminately destroying entire civilian neighborhoods.

What makes this all the more disturbing is the clearly known reality that Russia of course has precision-guided weapons and, should it wish to, could easily pinpoint military targets with surgical bomb and missile strikes. Therefore, the attacks on civilians appeared quite deliberate right from the start, given that Russia has the technical means to avoid that. 

Precision-guided artillery and GPS-guided land missiles, for example, have existed since 2007 when the Army fired Excalibur, a GPS-guided artillery shell able to pinpoint exact targets from 30km away. 

Russia’s Precision Guided Munitions

Russia has of course its own arsenal of equivalent precision-munitions, which not only give commanders more options and enable for precise strikes, but they also offer the possibility of launching extremely effective attacks “without” having to kill civilians and destroy the infrastructure of the attacked country.

Now however, the Pentagon says Russia is in fact running out of precision munitions due to the overwhelming amount of weapons they have fired.