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Libya: LNA operating South African-made G5 155 mm howitzers

Kazim Abdul by Kazim Abdul
December 2, 2020
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The Libyan National Army (LNA) is now operating new artillery systems including South African-made 155 mm G5 gun-howitzer and Serbian multiple rocket launchers (MRLs).

A video released on 14 November showing the artillery systems in an LNA live-fire exercise which featured “specialised battalions, artillery, armour, missiles, military engineering, special forces, the air force, and the parachute team.”

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The G5 artillery were likely acquired from the United Arab Emirates, which procured six second-hand G5s in 1991/93 and 78 self-propelled G6 howitzers in 2013/14 from South Africa according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s arms transfers database.

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In the exercise, three 130 mm M-46 and three 122 mm D-30 guns were also seen, along with mortars of various calibres and three MRLs.

For a long time, the UAE has been supportive of Khalifa Haftar’s Forces with various light and heavy military equipment. UAE is believed to have supplied Pantsir-S1 air defence systems and Javelin anti-tank missiles to the LNA, several of which have been captured.

Also, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have provided the LNA with armoured vehicles including Panthera T6, Inkas Titan-DS, Typhoon, Mbombe and, KADDB al-Mared, Caiman armoured vehicles, and aircraft including MiG-21 fighter aircraft and Mi-24/35P helicopters since 2014.

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