Ukrainian defense officials have stated that monthly output reached 20 units, with optimal conditions allowing for up to 36. By mid-2025, more than 85% of components were sourced domestically, with a target of reaching 95% by the end of the year. Manufacturing operations are distributed across facilities in Ukraine and EU member states to reduce exposure to missile attacks.
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Earlier, in April 2025, Ukraine nearly doubled the monthly production rate of its Bohdana self-propelled howitzers to as many as 36 units. The increase followed efforts to decentralize manufacturing across domestic and international facilities, with over 85% of components produced within Ukraine.
The patent news was already posted, but the details in this article are good and look at that production increase. It could not come at a more crucial time either. This is one of the largest shifts in power in the war so far, I know people think I am weird for emphasizing artillery but I don’t see this shift in power being delineated by the media and it is a crime especially for the morale of Ukrainians. These cannons are saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers over and over again as we speak.
Here is info on production of towed Bohdanas.
In an interview with Channel 5 published the day before, Major General (Ret.) Ivan Lisovyi stated that five batches of Bohdana-BG howitzers had already been delivered in 2025. This suggests a high production tempo, likely in the range of 10 to 20 units per month, comparable to the self-propelled version
For an example of why this kind of artillery is more relevant than ever see the details of this successful artillery strike from a great distance in coordination with drone spotters.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/155_mm_SpGH_Zuzana
The strike targeted russian 152 mm artillery system at a reported distance of over 25 kilometers.
A total of eight rounds were fired from the Zuzana 2 system, reportedly achieving a high concentration of impacts on the identified position. The strike was carried out beyond visual range and is described as the unit’s current record for precision engagement at extended distance.
Let me put this in perspective cus y’all must think I am crazy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artillery_by_country
The wikipedia entry for artillery by country doesn’t even have an entry for Ukraine and yet by many metrics Ukraine is now producing sophisticated 155mm artillery systems with world class barrels at a rate that rivals any other country on earth, whether we are talking towed artillery or armored self propelled artillery, especially given the sophistication of the bohdana’s fire control systems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2A36_Giatsint-B
^ A side note, the carriage for the towed Bohdana version is currently a repurposed one originally designed for the Soviet Union’s Giatsint-B “Hyacinth” towed 152mm artillery. This is a smart move as it repurposes as much as possible from Ukraine’s inventory of 152mm artillery of this type along with the relevant logistics and supply chain elements specific to just the carriage of the artillery piece and creates a natural strategic flexibility for Ukraine that Russia is poorly situated to rival especially given the incredible increase in 155mm artillery ammunition production globally, Russia is going to be left out in the cold rain with an artillery caliber (152mm) that is vastly underproduced compared to 155mm while Ukraine simultaneously will retain a powerful capacity to repurpose any Russian artillery or ammunition it gets its hands on even very late into a war of attrition as it is actively fielding artillery pieces of both calibers with as much shared mechanical aspects between the two as possible.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E8pu6WiEICc&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD
In the peculiar way power is projected in war, the simple capacity to place a sophisticated 155mm cannon onto a soviet era 152mm artillery carriage in a simple, effective, and expedient manner at an industrial scale has an immediate impact in the threat of burst potential it creates strategically. Russia knows it is losing the artillery war bad, but if they can’t even count on it at least taking some time to arrange mass production of artillery carriages for the towed guns to mate them too and iron out all the problems… suddenly forecasting out the strategic outlook becomes much harder for Russia.
In particular the threat of a counter offensive, even if remote and unlikely, becomes much more serious if a large amount of your towed artillery is recovered by the enemy before you can destroy it… well now you just delivered the enemy a new set of artillery carriages for their factories… Remember, no matter what the media says, these artillery pieces are too integral especially for attrition warfare to NOT use. Russia HAS to have at least some of them to conduct even basic aspects of modern warfare manuevers.
Consider that Russian generals, if they aren’t idiots, are looking at all their currently in use 152mm artillery that have similar carriages and thinking “Ukraine can do far more damage with these than we can by ripping the shitty cannon off and replacing it with their vastly superior 155mm bohdanas they are producing at a stunning rate…”
That is not the kind of thing that generals who are winning think about when they stare blankly at a truck trailer on their smoke break.
Edit Also consider the strategic advantage inherent to simplifying decoy artillery production which is a simple age old strategy to protect your valuable artillery crew, and the flexibility to obscure important gaps in logistics, that come from Ukraine’s seperate artillery calibers 152mm and 155mm mostly being mounted on very similar looking carriages as far as towed artillery is concerned. Now consider the perspective of Ukranian intelligence being able to glean the dizzying array of Russian artillery sizes needed to keep up their artillery fire pace, yes they just received a large number of North Korean Koksan artillery which have impressive performance from a purely hardware standpoint, but that is another seperate caliber fielded by an extremely distinctive looking artillery piece. If you are trying to design a counteroffensive or hit the enemy back at places that are already logistical bottlenecks to maximally increase the strength of your limited ammunition, then this kind of difference adds up every time battle occurs… but also it makes it that much harder for decoys to be effective and believable enough to fool Ukranian drones and intelligence because Russia needs more of them with more shapes to match the greater variety of distinctive artillery pieces in order to sufficiently confuse Ukraine and give Russia the space to make decisive operational maneuvers. You can say that well… trained personnel know the difference between similar looking military equipment, but remember military intelligence often doesn’t come from the military especially in wars where there is an occupying force that is generally unwanted by the population…
The Czech government has confirmed it will continue supplying artillery ammunition to Ukraine through 2026 as part of its international initiative, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said in an interview with Bloomberg on June 17.
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He noted that while exact delivery figures for 2026 have not been disclosed, shipments for 2025 are expected to reach 1.8 million rounds, backed by 11 countries and frozen Russian assets.
Lipavský described the Czech-led initiative as a turning point on the battlefield, stating that it helped reduce the firepower disparity between Ukrainian and Russian artillery from a 1-to-10 ratio in early 2022 to 1-to-2 in 2025.