Soldiers of the Rarog Unmanned Systems Battalion of the 24th Mechanized Brigade destroyed two 2S9 Nona self-propelled mortars.

The videos of the incident (1, 2) were published in the battalion’s Telegram channel.

During the week, the Rarog Unmanned Systems Battalion used FPV drones to destroy two 2S9 Nona self-propelled mortars in the Donetsk region.

In addition, a D-74 122mm cannon and a M-46 130mm long-range cannon were destroyed. The invaders’ communications equipment, vehicles, motorized equipment, and personnel were also destroyed.

The 2S9 Nona self-propelled mortar is designed to provide direct fire support to airborne troops on the battlefield. The primary weapon is a 120mm mortar gun.

It is capable of conducting targeted fire without prior preparation from indirect fire positions and direct fire. It can use mortar rounds and 120mm artillery shells.

The D-74 is a Soviet towed gun of the artillery corps, which was adopted by the USSR Armed Forces in 1956.

The gun was developed by OKB-9 in 1947-1950 and was intended to replace the 1931/37 122mm guns in the corps artillery. Serial production of the D-74 began in 1955, and the army accepted the first production guns in 1956.

Between the 1960s and 1970s, almost all D-74s were withdrawn from Soviet arsenals and transferred to the Middle East and Asia.

The militaries of the DPRK, Vietnam, China, and Algeria actively use D-74s. According to open sources, they are in the arsenals of Zimbabwe, Mauritania, Nigeria, and Sudan and were in service in Iraq, Egypt, and several other countries.

Given these facts, it can be assumed that the Russians had basically a handful of D-74s left and decided to put them back into service with the support of their partners.

The Soviet M-46 is a long-range 130mm towed gun designed to destroy earthworks, combat enemy artillery, armored vehicles, and mortars, and suppress enemy manpower. The maximum firing range of conventional high-explosive fragmentation shells is over 27 km. And with the use of rocket-assisted ammunition, it is 37 kilometers.