The fragment of drone footage published the other day by War Online Telegram channel is showing several pieces of russian equipment and a dugout with military personnel getting shelled with artillery fire.
The authors claim that this position of russian forces was struck with an M982 Excalibur artillery shell, as result we see three shots with direct hits on two 'Medved' towed artillery tractors and another one on the concentration of forces.
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Ukraine Weapons Tracker community suggests this is probably the first time an Excalibur shell is even documented in Ukraine, despite the artillery capable of firing those had been spotted earlier.
In mid-July there was a video featuring an M777A2 howitzer which is basically standard M777 with additional digital fire control system, the TAD (towed artillery digitalization) module.
As a side note, regardless which type of projectiles was used, this precise use of ammunition allows not only launch effective strikes but be efficient in terms of ammunition spending, a kind of tactics that fundamentally differs from russian way of warfare.
M982 Excalibur is an American-developed 155mm munition with inertial and satellite navigation and effective accuracy of within 4 meters. This is an extended-range munition which means it increases the range of fire from M777 gun to 40 km compared to 22.5 km with standard M795 ammunition.
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