2S35 Koalitsiya-SV 152mm

Nothing wrong with being obsessed with the Dana... it is an excellent vehicle/system. The South African G6 is even better in the fact that it has been made mine resistant and has excellent range.

This new Russian artillery system however is going to be their standard turret, which by the way is completely unmanned and fully automatic, for a range of suitable platforms.

In the heavy tracked version (armata chassis) all the crew sit in the hull just like in the MBT version.

This suggests to me a standard turret... even the naval model should be able to be fitted to a vessel fairly easily though I would expect far more sophisticated stabilisation systems as the naval model needs to fire while moving,... will be fitted to a range of platforms and for certain locations would be ideal as a fixed system like the do with tank turrets for coastal defence.

I don't think there will be a light wheeled version and the medium wheeled version is clearly going to be truck based rather than crammed into a Boomerang chassis because of the reasons given in the article.

Think of it along the lines of the air defence vehicles... the Pantsir-S1 in the heavy brigades will simply be a Pantsir-S1 turret mounted on an armata chassis, and the Boomerang and Kurganets chassis likely will also take a similar turret... perhaps with extra gun ammo in the rear hull compartments. The light Typhoon model might have one gun and perhaps a reduced number of missiles or it might have a different turret with different missiles like SOSNA-R to reduce weight yet retain range exceeding that of MANPADS.

An option might be a hybrid system with vertical launch tubes able to fire the new Morphei IIR guided missiles, plus a mix of the very cheap TOR missiles in their latest models and perhaps TOR missiles with ARH seekers with a fire and forget capability...

The current gun artillery system is MSTA, which is based on the T-80 chassis, so it can have similar mobility to the tanks it operates with. The logical extension of that would be if there were BMP and BTR brigades that a BMP and BTR based model would make sense to give it the mobility to keep up with the vehicles it is operating with. The problem is that both the BTR and BMP would be too light to carry such a powerful weapon so they have substituted the wheeled version with a truck based version. To operate with the BMPs they would likely use a T-80 based model and accept the different engine and components, but starting from scratch they will likely develop the much heavier Kurganets chassis to allow it to use the bigger gun in an artillery vehicle.

The only reason for the reduction to one gun is to fit in cargo planes.

By removing one barrel you also remove the dual feed autoloading system associated with that barrel which should make it rather smaller and lighter.

Such concerns are not relevant to the naval models and indeed the fixed position models or models adapted to coastal defence.

I know it was a very old question but:

The Kord RWS on the turret looks compact. I wonder if that will be the standard 12.7mm arrangement.

That would make sense... it needs to be remotely operated as the turret is unmanned so the chance of someone opening the hatch and loading more ammo is zero, so it needs all its ammo ready to fire, plus some way of clearing jams, in addition to sighting and aiming.

Naval.



Top... 2S35.

Actually looking at the Naval gun it is interesting because the dual feed loads shells on one side and propellent charges on the other unlike the tank autoloaders (125mm) that feed both...

The first link shows only a basic drawing of a support vehicle that looks rather like the support vehicle for the US M109 howitzer... as it is not in the diagram below that shows the vehicle in context of other support vehicles I suspect it is pure speculation.

I have seen trucks with ammo on board that will most likely be used when sustained fire operations are needed.

This is the support/logistics vehicle:



Regarding the chassis for the towed model test I suspect that old WWII 203 mount was probably available for a quick test.

For short range mobility it would be a very useful base offering excellent short range mobility (they had their own motors and could be driven short distances without vehicle support when needed).

One of the features of the new guns will be rapidly firing shells with different propellent loads at different angles so that they all arrive on target at once... maximising their effect.

From an artillery point of view the faster you can get your shells on target the better because in about 10-15 seconds from the first impact most of the enemy forces will have dived for cover and will be much more difficult to kill or injure.

This means that if you can get 8 rounds to impact the target almost at once from one gun vehicle then a battery can fire and then be on the move... all the shells will arrive almost at once maximising their effect on target but the firing unit will be on the move before any counter battery fire can be directed at them.

The reloading vehicle would most likely be waiting at the position they intend to move to to have a quick reload before firing and quickly moving off again.