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"This team working together can have a real impact and those AS-90s will be a big part of that." "So when you think about capabilities, it's not 30 AS-90s-it's self-propelled artillery that's part of a larger combined arms team," Hodges said. The military assistance offered by the U.K., including these AS-90s, could be put together to form an armored Ukrainian brigade, offering up the foundations for an armored division, Hodges suggested.

The armored, self-propelled AS-90 is able to move as well as fire, while offering its crew protection from Russian counter-fire, making it "an important part of the team." Institute for the Study of War and AEI's Critical Threats Project Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment from January 18, 2023. "These these are all designed to complement each other," working as combined arms rather than independently, Hodges said. The Challenger 2 tanks and AS-90s and their ammunition will "come from our stocks," the defense minister clarified.ĭespite the focus on providing main battle tanks, most notably the Leopard 2s, "the self-propelled artillery is just as important as tanks, or infantry fighting vehicles," Lieutenant General (Retd) Ben Hodges, the former commander of U.S. is sending a battery, or group, of eight guns at "high readiness," Wallace added, "and two further batteries at varying states of readiness." Confirming that a squadron of the U.K.'s main battle tanks, the Challenger 2, would be delivered to Ukraine, Wallace said that Downing Street would also send a shipment of AS-90s self-propelled artillery. On Monday, United Kingdom Defense Secretary Ben Wallace announced "the most significant package of combat power to date" to the House of Commons. would send AS-90s to Ukraine, along with a squadron of Challenger 2 main battle tanks. British Defense Minister Ben Wallace announced the U.K. Above, an AS90 self-propelled vehicle with a 155mm gun from the 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, which is part of the British 1st Armored Division's 7th Armored Brigade, is loaded onto the Longstone for deployment to the Persian Gulf area from Germany's Port of Emden on February 8, 2003.