Ukrainian drone operators have spotted, and Ukrainian artillery batteries have destroyed, no fewer than 18 of the nine-person 2S4s—around a third of the pre-war force.
The Russian army widened its war on Ukraine with around 50 self-propelled 2S4 Tulpans: hulking, 30-ton tracked vehicles hauling 240-millimeter mortars that lob 290-pound shells a distance of six miles. “Tulpan” is Russian for “tulip.”
Nineteen months later, Ukrainian drone operators have spotted, and Ukrainian artillery batteries have destroyed,At least one expert theorized the Ukrainians were making a special effort to knock out 2S4s. “They are likely a priority for Ukrainian counterbattery fire,”It’s not hard to understand why. The 2S4 is uniquely destructive: a city-destroying siege weapon. Even when it misses, a 2S4 can wear down enemy troops.
The Soviet army had hundreds of 2S4s but put most of them in storage following the USSR’s collapse. The Russian army deployed just four 2S4s during the first Chechen campaign in 1994 and 10 2S4s during the second campaign in Chechnya in 1996. During the ‘96 campaign, the huge mortars took aim at rebel forces in Grozny—and proceeded to flatten the city, according to Marek Depczynski, a professor at War Studies University in Warsaw.
Apparently desperate to prevent the demolition of their own cities, the Ukrainians have been hunting 2S4s. In one dramatic strike in May 2022, Ukrainian gunners scrutinized a Russian T.V. report on a front-line 2S4 crew, geolocated the mortar’s position in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine and blew it up with a precision artillery barrage.
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