At the end of 2022, 122-mm OF-462 shells, produced in Iran in 2022, were first seen in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, it has recently become clear that the Ukrainian army is using even newer shells produced as early as 2023, according to the Military Informant Telegram channel, citing a photograph of a shell with the appropriate marking.
“The constant appearance of everything It is difficult to explain the fresher stocks of shells from Iran produced in just the last few months only by the transfer of captured weapons from Iranian naval convoys to the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” the resource notes.