The Dnipro-1 Fire Support Regiment, part of the National Police’s Lyut Brigade, has released a video showing a previously unidentified hybrid howitzer.
The footage was highlighted by the Vodohray Telegram channel.
The artillery piece features a carriage identical to those used with Soviet-era D-20 howitzers or D-74 guns.
However, the barrel appears to be longer than standard for the D-20 — visually estimated at around 39 calibers.
Without a view of the breech, which is obscured by an armored plate, a precise identification is difficult.
One possibility is that the weapon is a 152mm M-84 Nora-A howitzer, which may have arrived in Ukraine from former Yugoslav republics.
It is highly unlikely that this is a D-74 gun. Few D-74s were produced during the Soviet era, mostly for export to allied nations.
In many cases, production was licensed and carried out in the recipient countries.
In the 1960s and 1970s, most D-74s were withdrawn from Soviet service and transferred to countries in the Middle East and Asia.
In Europe, they saw limited use in Warsaw Pact countries — including Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, and the former East Germany — before being decommissioned.
It is possible that the barrel is a new development by the Ukrainian or broader European defense industry — potentially in the Balkans — while the carriage may have come from existing stockpiles.
Miltarnyi also reported that the Lyut Brigade’s artillery units are also equipped with Ukraine’s domestically produced Bohdana self-propelled guns.
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