Despite the fact that the russian Armiya-2024 arms exhibition begins on August 12, information about the samples that will be presented there is already appearing.
One of such samples is an unmanned ground vehicle based on tracked robotic chassis. The name of this development is not yet known, but it is labeled as a 122-mm D-30 towed howitzer on the MTS-15 tracked robotic chassis.
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From the brief description of the development, it is known that the unmanned ground vehicle can be controlled at a distance of up to 500 meters. At the same time, the artillery system received a four-shot automatic loading device.
According to the russian developers, the main task of this artillery systems is to come out of a hideout, to make some gunshots and hide to reload and repeat the same. All this happens without any additional risk for the crew, which will manage it from a not very distant but secure location.
Such feature as the firing range of the D-30 of up to 15.3 km is quite important not only in the context of counter-battery warfare but also in the context of drone activity.
The declared payload of the MTS-15 chassis is 15 tons, the maximum speed is up to 12 km/h, and the range is up to 120 km.
The author of the development is currently unknown. It is worth noting that the peculiarity of this year's Armiya-2024 exhibition is the participation of a large number of so-called people's defense industry. It means the performance of small companies. It should be added that the Defense Ministry of the russian federation changed the format of the Armiya forum less than a week before its start, closing it to ordinary russians.
The degree of development completion is also unknown. It is possible that this is a prototype that will be sent for testing later. In such case we are talking about the long-term perspective. For instance, the Zubilo drone, first introduced in 2023, was still being tested as of early August 2024.
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