America has donated its newest 105mm Hawkeye howitzer to Ukraine.
Russian navy journalist Alexander Sokolov reported the information citing a press release from Mark Evans, head of the American AM Normal firm.
One of many benefits of Falcon Eye is its excessive gentle return fee, quick firing fee, vary of as much as 12 kilometers, and its potential to rotate 360 ​​levels.
The gun is positioned on the open platform of the Humvee four-wheel drive automobile, making certain excessive mobility. The vertical lead angle vary is between -5 levels and +75 levels. It has a crew of three and a fee of fireplace of 10-12 rounds per minute.
The “Hawkeye” positioned on the Humvee platform has a fight weight of roughly 4.4 tons, a size of 5 m, a width of two.4 m, and a peak of two.3 m.
The gun could be transported by the C-130 Hercules medium-range transport plane.
The Hummer platform on which the gun is put in has good maneuverability. It has a high velocity of 100 km/h, a driving vary of 400 km, and may move vertical obstacles as much as 0.3 m excessive, ditches 0.5 m extensive and water obstacles as much as 76 cm deep.
