Russians Deploy Stalin-Era Howitzers To Defend Kursk Region

The Russian Defense Ministry has admitted this.

The Russian army has begun using 130-mm M-46 howitzers from the 1950s to defend the Kursk region. The Russian Defense Ministry has shown footage of the weapons, and the Agency has drawn attention to the artillery.

“The footage shows the combat work of M-46 gun crews of the Sever group of troops in the border area of the Kursk region. M-46 gun crews set up firing positions in the border areas of the Kursk region to destroy mobile armored groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” the press release from the Russian military department says. Such howitzers were previously used in other areas of the front.

The 130-mm M-46 cannon entered service in 1951. In the mid-1970s, the USSR replaced this howitzer with the 152-mm Giatsint-B cannon.

Russia began to de-mothball its howitzer stocks amid heavy artillery losses during the war with Ukraine. By the start of the full-scale invasion, 665 M-46 howitzers were stored in military warehouses. In the summer, the Russian army increased the speed of de-mothballing these guns, delivering half of all stocks to the front, the Highmarsed project noted. As Forbes specified, Russia can import shells for such guns from the DPRK or Iran, since it does not produce them itself.

As noted by the Agency, last Sunday, host of Russia-1 Yevgeny Popov showed on the TV channel that T-62 tanks are used in the Kursk region. These combat vehicles were accepted into service in 1961. According to Popov, the tanks have been modernized and equipped with modern dynamic protection.

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