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May 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#Ukraine: Apparently, we were right in asserting that Ukraine is receiving Iranian weapons seized from the Houthis by the United States - here we see a pristine Iranian mortar in the hands of the Ukrainian army.
The mortar itself is very interesting - it very closely resembles an Iranian HM-15 81mm mortar but as the source claims uses 82mm mortar bombs. The name of this particular variant is also stated - HM-19.
We have not encountered such a designation anywhere before, but we believe these mortars are produced specially for Houthis in Yemen, where 82mm mortar bombs of Warsaw Pact are pretty common.
H/T @intodatascience for the image.

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