New transport-loading vehicle for ACS has passed state tests
“Currently the installation has passed state tests. Its delivery to the troops will begin next year. The newest TZM will be delivered together with the divisions of the MSTA-SV ACS, for which the Ministry of Defense and the Uralvagonzavod corporation signed a contract in September, ” - told the newspaper in the Central Research Institute.
TZM developed on the basis of the truck KAMAZ-6560. In its body mounted revolving installation with 92 shots. “Turning around at the operator’s command, the installation with a special lever-rammer delivers the projectile to the pneumatic manipulator, which in turn“ captures ”the ammunition and transfers it from the carousel to the SAU charging installation,” the publication says.
Until now, the loading of ammunition in the ACS is carried out exclusively by hand. With the advent of TZM, this process is accelerated by several times - a full load of X-gun in 50 of art-shots is reloaded from 2-X66-1 to the installation in a few minutes.
“Each artillery battalion will include one transport-loading vehicle 2Ф66-1. Thanks to its use, the rate of fire of artillery units will increase by 2 – 3 times, and the time for replenishing ammunition will be significantly reduced. Now transport-charging machines, similar to the Russian 2F66-1, are part of the latest Swedish wheeled howitzer Archer. The product, made on the chassis of a Volvo A30D truck, carries a little more than 40 projectiles, which it loads into the combat compartment of the SAU also using a manipulator. Similar in their tactical and technical characteristics of the TZM are also part of the divisions of the French SAU Caesar ", - told the source in the Ministry of Defense.
- TASS / Sergey Bobylev
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