Just when you thought the equipment-starved Russian military couldn’t get more desperate for firepower, it goes and creates some new bizarre and unwieldy do-it-yourself weapon.

DIY vehicles and artillery that have appeared on the Russian side of the 700-mile front line of Russia’s 28-month wider war on Ukraine include: armored personnel carriers with rocket pods borrowed from helicopters; trucks packing naval anti-submarine rockets; “turtle tanks” with anti-drone shells made of sheet metal; and assault motorcycles encased in the same metal sheeting.

But the improvised field gun that debuted on Russian social media last week might be the strangest—and least effective—of these cobbled-together weapons. It’s a 2A28 low-pressure 73-millimeter gun that some enterprising Russian technicians popped off a 1960s-vintage BMP-1 fighting vehicle and welded to a crude carriage so it can be towed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/07/05/the-russians-are-yanking-the-guns-off-of-old-bmp-fighting-vehicles-and-turning-them-into-inaccurate-artillery/

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