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2S22 Bohdana

Ukraine's indigenous 155 mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer — built to NATO caliber, produced at world-record rates, and combat-proven from the Snake Island shelling to the front lines of the Donbas.

2S22 Bohdana
FIG.01 · Ukraine Image - Ukrainian 2S22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer. Photo by Сергій Воронков, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Ukraine's indigenous 155 mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer — NATO-standard, fast-produced, and combat-proven, with a towed variant and a determined export push.

Overview

The 2S22 Bohdana is a Ukrainian-built 155 mm truck-mounted self-propelled howitzer, the first home-grown NATO-caliber gun in the country's arsenal. Designed to let the artillery branch break free from a Russian-dominated 152 mm ammunition ecosystem, it pairs a long-range L/52 howitzer with a wheeled chassis for rapid shoot-and-scoot fire missions. Since its lone prototype was hustled out of a factory under threat in February 2022, Bohdana has evolved into a family of six wheeled variants, a towed counterpart, and the highest-volume 155 mm howitzer production line in the world.

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