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D-20

152 mm towed gun-howitzer M1955

The 152 mm howitzer M1954, also known as the D-20 is a manually loaded, towed 152 mm artillery piece,
manufactured in the Soviet during the 1950s. It was rst observed by the west in 1955 and was therefore known
as the M1955. There is also a Chinese copy, called Type 66.
The D-20 gun-howitzer was developed shortly after the end of WW2 by the F. Petrov Design Bureau and it was
intended to replace the pre-war 152 mm ML-20 howitzer (M1937).
The D-20 was the rst 152-mm cannon system to incorporate a semiautomatic vertical-sliding-wedge breech
block.

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5 700 kg
8 690 mm
5 195 mm
152 mm
2 350 mm
1 930 mm
8
17.4 km
24 km (rocket assisted projectile)
Frag-HE, OF-32 - range
17,400 meters DPICM
DPICM-BB
Incendiary
Expendable Jammer
Chemical
Flechette
Semi-active laser-guided
Krasnopol-M

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