President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a significant milestone in Ukraine’s push to increase domestic weapons production on April 18, saying that Kyiv was on track to produce 10 Bohdana howitzers this ...

Ukraine's Kramatorsk Heavy Machine Tool Building Plant (KZVV) has registered an international patent for the 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer. The design has been patented as a standalone ...

As Russian tanks poured into Ukraine in February 2022, the engineers at the Kramatorsk Heavy Duty Machine Tooling Plant were preparing to destroy what they’d spent the last seven years building: the ...

The Kramatorsk Heavy Machinery Plant, in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, built exactly one 2S22 howitzer around five years ago. As a Russian army attacked across Ukraine along multiple ...

Ukrainian industry is on track to churn out at least 72 wheeled howitzers next year. If only they had enough ammunition. The tractor factory in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s biggest producer of armored fighting ...

July 3, 2024: Ukraine has developed its own version of the French Caesar truck-mounted 155mm howitzer. The Ukrainian version is called the 2S22 Bogdana. This is a 28 ton, six-wheel truck armed with a ...

It has helped surge production of a key piece of artillery, the 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer. Allies are buying weapons for Ukraine from Ukrainian manufacturers, avoiding issues with Western ...

A Ukraine-manufactured Bohdana howitzer fires at Russian positions in the Donbas in June 2023. Photo: Ukraine’s First Separate Special Purpose Brigade named after Ivan Bohun. An innovate ...

At the international arms exhibition IDEX-2023 in Abu Dhabi, an updated Ukrainian 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled artillery system was presented. It proved instrumental during the liberation of Zmiinyi ...

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has started trials of the 2S22 Bogdana, a wheeled self-propelled howitzer (SPH) armed with a 155 mm ordnance. The first trials were conducted with wooden blocks ...

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A look at the best news photos from around the world. 1 A policeman talks to a migrant trying to escape from the hotspot, on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy. 2 A Ukrainian serviceman fires a ...