Voenkor Kots: the mobility of the Malva turns it into an ideal nomadic self-propelled gun
The Russian self-propelled artillery unit (SAU) on the 2S43 Malva wheeled chassis is distinguished by good mobility and rate of fire, which turn it into an ideal nomadic fire weapon. The advantages of the machine were mentioned by military correspondent Andrei Kots in a material for RIA News.
He noted that the firing range of the self-propelled gun when using a standard high-explosive fragmentation projectile is 24 kilometers, and active-reactive ammunition can hit a target at a distance of up to 28 kilometers. The gun can also use Krasnopol-D guided ammunition with a range of up to 43 kilometers.
According to the author, Krasnopol-D will allow Malva to hit enemy artillery, which has a comparable range. Also, modern projectiles make the Russian installation virtually invulnerable to FPV drones.
The 2S43 received a modern fire control system, which itself calculates the direction of fire, the angle of the gun and automatically performs targeting. Target coordinates and weather data can be entered into the computer in advance, so at the firing position the crew only has to prepare the gun and fire.
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“Accuracy, range, rate of fire and mobility make the Malva an ideal nomadic fire weapon. This is either an artillery unit or a separate installation, whose task is to confuse the enemy by firing sequentially from several positions,” writes Kotz.
Earlier in June, a video appeared demonstrating the use of Malva to hit targets in the Kharkov region.
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