A towed gun is just cheaper and lighter and can be taken into places a self propelled gun can't go.
New systems to allow it to be aimed and fired with automated information from a C4IR system will make them much more effective...
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Is Malva just a wheeled equivalent of 2S5?
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franco wrote:Uralvagonzavod supplied the Ministry of Defense with the first batch of modernized ACS "Akatsia"
MOSCOW, May 13. / TASS /. Uraltransmash (part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the Rostec state corporation) delivered the first batch of 2S3M Akatsia self-propelled artillery units (ACS) 2S3M Akatsiya to the Russian Ministry of Defense as part of the state defense order. This was reported to TASS on Thursday in the press service of UVZ.
"The vehicle has improved communication facilities, and also carried out work on complete import substitution. Self-propelled howitzers are fully equipped with transportable spare parts, tools and accessories and handed over to the customer," the press service quoted Dmitry Semizorov, General Director of Uraltransmash, as saying.
ACS 2S3M2 "Akatsia" of 152 mm caliber is designed to destroy and suppress artillery, tanks, self-propelled guns and other armored equipment, suppress rear services and command and control bodies, and destroy field and long-term defensive structures.
https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/11363945
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George1 wrote:franco wrote:Uralvagonzavod supplied the Ministry of Defense with the first batch of modernized ACS "Akatsia"
MOSCOW, May 13. / TASS /. Uraltransmash (part of the Uralvagonzavod concern of the Rostec state corporation) delivered the first batch of 2S3M Akatsia self-propelled artillery units (ACS) 2S3M Akatsiya to the Russian Ministry of Defense as part of the state defense order. This was reported to TASS on Thursday in the press service of UVZ.
"The vehicle has improved communication facilities, and also carried out work on complete import substitution. Self-propelled howitzers are fully equipped with transportable spare parts, tools and accessories and handed over to the customer," the press service quoted Dmitry Semizorov, General Director of Uraltransmash, as saying.
ACS 2S3M2 "Akatsia" of 152 mm caliber is designed to destroy and suppress artillery, tanks, self-propelled guns and other armored equipment, suppress rear services and command and control bodies, and destroy field and long-term defensive structures.
https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/11363945
Would they consider developing a variant that weighs at least half (around 4,000 to 5,000kg) similar to the US M777 so that it will be transportable by Mi-8 or Mi-38?
I guess this is yet another new service they can provide to former customers of the type.
But it seems to be yet another vehicle and chassis type to maintain. Why not just put a howitzer on a Kurganets chassis?
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Very nice catch!mavaff wrote:video of Magnolia 120mm firing
https://tvzvezda.ru/news/2021610719-XftrT.html
Wheeled self-propelled as opposed to towed artillery only really took off once all the enablers for responsive counter-battery fire started proliferating, so the last 30 years. Before that towed artillery was perfectly fine, especially since the truck typically carried much more ammo than was possible if the truck were to be mated with the gun itself, which is neat since going on the offensive hundreds of kms from railheads means you are going to need all the trucks you are going to get and then some.Flanky wrote:
Very nice catch!
Its good to see Russians have finally understood the value of having artillery on wheels.
But the floks is a surprise... howitzer and mortar all in one?
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Its good to see Russians have finally understood the value of having artillery on wheels.
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Soviets had more mobile artillery assets than the whole NATO combined.
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mavaff wrote:video of Magnolia 120mm firing
Is anyone else concerned by how much the barrel seems to sway on that mount?