( MENAFN - UkrinForm) The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has received 32,400 120mm mortars to replace 54,000 defective ones ...

The Ukrainian magazine "Dzerkalo Tyzhnia" published the results of a journalistic investigation, which reveals that the 120mm caliber mortar ammunition produced in Ukraine does not function properly.

As an SPM the vehicle is modified to carry a larger turret with the 120mm rifled-gun/mortar barrel. The new SPM version carries 36 rounds of ammunition, including short-range (1,200 meters) anti-tank ...

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has been investigating the causes of malfunctions in 120mm mortar shells for the past three weeks and has suspended the use of certain batches of ammunition by ...

Last month, Ukrainian media outlets reported that a significant portion of 120mm mortar rounds and a smaller ... powder charges or violations of ammunition storage conditions,” the ministry ...

He said that in some ammunition batches nine out of ten rounds that he managed ... correspondent Yuliya Kiriyenko on Nov. 23 showed video of a recently fired 120mm mortar, still smoking, with a round ...

destroying a D-30 howitzer with ammunition (casualties: three Ukrainian militants were killed and another four received wounds of varying severity) and a 120mm mortar team with ammunition ...

destroying an M777 howitzer with ammunition (casualties: five Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another two received wounds of varying severity) and a 120mm mortar with ammunition (casualties ...

The ministry said it had suspended the use of the affected batches of ammunition and that imported ... reported the total number of faulty 120-mm mortar rounds to be closer to 100,000.