It looks like our defenders have another piece of rare artillery at their disposal
On September 4, the press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine published a video showing border guards practicing firing from a 100-mm caliber BS-3 gun, which was manufactured in 1944-1951, and only 3,800 of these artillery systems were produced.
This video can be considered the first official confirmation of the presence of BS-3 cannons in the Ukrainian Defense Forces. According to the passport characteristics, the BS-3 has a declared range of up to 20.8 km, a rate of fire of up to 8-10 rounds per minute, and a combat weight of 3.6 tons.
There is no information yet on where our border guards could have obtained the BS-3 guns. But we can also add that this is by no means the only piece of rare Soviet-style artillery that ended up in the hands of Ukraine’s defenders during the full-scale war against Russia.
For example, in June 2023, one of the TRO brigades showed KS-19 anti-aircraft guns of the late 1940s, probably taken as a trophy in the Kharkiv region. We also talked about how in August of this year, the Ukrainian Armed Forces demonstrated a combat vehicle made of MT-LB and a D-44 cannon on the principle of “drive and fire.”
In turn, for the first time during the full-scale war against Russia, rare 85-mm D-44 cannons were made available to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in June 2022. And just a month later, it became known that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shooting at the racists with a rare D-48 cannon made in the 1950s.