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Artillery

D-30 122mm howitzer

The ubiquitous Soviet 122mm towed howitzer — simple, cheap and exported everywhere; the baseline of tube artillery in most armies that field it.

D-30Soviet Union1960s design; fielded on both sides in Ukraine and long in Malian service

Status as of
2026-01
Last reviewed
2026-07-19

AssessmentModerate confidence

Recognition context, not a stat sheet. The catalogue covers major publicly documented systems relevant to the conflicts Vigil covers — not an exhaustive order of battle. No quantities, availability or current allocations are recorded.

The recordWhat this system is, where it comes from, who operates it and which of Vigil’s modules it is relevant to — with the evidence each of those rests on.

FieldedEvidence: Confirmed
Silhouette · not to scale

Record

FamilyD-30
VariantsD-30
OriginSoviet Union
Era1960s design; fielded on both sides in Ukraine and long in Malian service
Appears inUkraine–Russia · Mali

Conflict relevance

This is the catalogue's single record for this system. It is relevant to the modules below; each module's Force Atlas shows how it is used there.

Ukraine–Russia · Force AtlasSahel · Force Atlas

Operators

Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) · Primary operatorUkraine · Primary operatorRussia · Secondary operator

Ukraine: A core towed-artillery type throughout the war, sustained by allied ammunition supply. · Russia: Fielded alongside newer self-propelled systems.

Battlefield role

In Ukraine, a baseline towed howitzer of the artillery war — simple to crew and fed by whichever 122mm stocks allies can source. In Mali, among the heaviest indirect fire the state fields, used from garrison hubs. The same gun serves industrial attrition in one war and hub defence in the other.

Branch & service operators

PartialConfidence: ModerateSources: Established international media reporting · Established historical record · Oryx visually-confirmed equipment documentation↗MethodologyCorrections

Assessed as of2026-01Last reviewed2026-07-19