Il Bohdana-B e il Marta dell’Ucraina potrebbero diventare i principali obici trainati dell’UE, ma c’è un problema

Licensing the self-propelled Bohdana for EU manufacture would also be a good option, since it’s battle-proven in peer warfare and doesn’t fall under ITAR, so derisking from our chaos and avoiding Russian allies (also an issue with Indian weapons)

These designs are unlikely to be of significant use and adaptation across Europe. Europe has in large part moved on from towed artillery, apart from niche uses, and should there be a future need is identified older designs that conceptually are out of date can be updated to modern manufacturing processes and practices with ease.

A reason towed artillery is unlikely to make a comeback is the developments in Ukraine. Without strong combined arms war degrades to near stalemated fronts. Towed artillery has some advantages in such a scenario, cost and complexity being of primary concern, but is very unsuited to combined arms operations exploiting breakthroughs, or for that matter relocating to defence in depth in a volatile battle space. Western doctrine depends on manoeuvre speed and towed artillery does not fit the bill.

People should stop believing everything that comes out if Ukraine is ‘the shit’. Ukraine makes what it can with what it has, and gets access to from its partners. Similar or better equipment can be made in Europe…

That people think Ukraine is to become an arsenal for democracy (Europe) is silly. What European government would, after the war, fund Ukrainian industry and manufacturing (at scale) in Ukraine at the cost of not creating well paid jobs in their own countries? It is delusional.