VLAD SENDS IN HIS 'SLEDGEHAMMER'
Daily Record|January 11, 2023
Nuke-capable mortar deployed
CHRIS HUGHES
VLAD SENDS IN HIS 'SLEDGEHAMMER'

RUSSIAN forces suffering massive frontline losses have deployed the world's largest nuke-capable mortar weapon to the Ukrainian battlefield.

Dubbed "the sledgehammer", the 254 Tulip or Tyulpan - self-propelled mortar is 240mm wide - twice the size of NATO's equivalent.

Transported on its own tracks it has a range of 12 miles and is used to obliterate large fortifications, military equipment or troop positions.

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