The brand new 'Made in Vietnam' self-propelled gun

The QPVN channel has recently introduced a new self-propelled gun product of Vietnam National Defense Industry. It was the 85mm cannon on the Ural cross-section truck chassis of Enterprise Z751.

Recently, the defense industry of Vietnam has implemented weapons improvements , technical equipment such as the solution to bring 105mm M101 howitzer on the chassis of Ural tires of Z751 Enterprise (General Department of Engineering), put D-44 85mm cannon on QK9 M548 crawler truck , .

Through the published image, it can be seen that the Ural truck's trunk was removed to replace with a load-bearing working platform as the ground for the cannon similar to when the Z751 Plant integrated a 105mm cannon.

Previously, the article titled "Emulation of technical improvement and application of new technologies" in the People's Army newspaper in November 2018 mentioned the testing of 85mm D-44 anti-tank guns on military vehicles. tire of Research and Development Department, Technology Department at Z751 Integrated Enterprise.

D-44 artillery can be used to destroy targets such as armored vehicles, fortifications, infantry to coastal defense, with a maximum range of more than 15km. D-44, despite its great power and destructive power, has poor maneuverability and is easily disabled in modern warfare environments.

Self-driving D-44 artillery on trucks helps to ensure maneuverability, camouflage, helps shorten the time of deploying and withdrawing artillery, increase the survivability of equipment, maintain and improve technical skills. tactics and combat performance compared to the original rickshaw cannon.

Applying technological advances, automating use operations

Also in the November 2018 People's Army article on the Z751 Joint-Venture Enterprise, the unit has successfully researched and designed an automatic configuration system for 105mm self-propelled howitzers.

This allows the new 85mm self-propelled gun to be integrated with the same automatic configuration system as the 105mm self-propelled gun.

Plan to put 85mm D-44 cannon on QK9's M548 crawler truck.

Thus, in addition to keeping the tactical features of the original artillery in direct shooting mode, the gunner can use a partially automated control system to improve accuracy and ensure time element of a shot.

The automatic cannon control system functions to control the rotation and lifting angle of the gun barrel. If the electronic system has a problem, the cannon can be controlled manually with the joystick or direct adjustment directly on the cannon.

Hopefully, after putting some 85mm and 105mm cannon on the truck chassis, Vietnam Military Industry will continue to promote the results, proceed to self-drive larger caliber tow guns such as D -30 122mm, D-74 122mm, D-46 130mm, D-20 152mm.

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