Originally Posted by
Tartiflette Fan
Poland is complaining to Germany that some of the seven PzH 2000 they delivered to Ukraine are out of action after just one month. Germany regards 100 shots per day as very intensive usage and the Ukrainians have been firing much more than that, as well as trying to fire extreme range with special shells. Spare parts are being dispatched asap.
https://www.focus.de/politik/ausland..._57275780.html
it's a design flaw, the projective moves backward/down and compresses the charge which over pressures the chamber leading to cracking.
Germans were aware of it for some time.