17.08.2024, 12:32
Interessante, wenngleich auch eine etwas wackelig und kopflastig wirkende Konstruktion: 122-mm-Haubitzen auf einem 6-Rad-APCs. Und, wie im Artikel auch angeschnitten, stelle ich mir es zumindest grenzwertig vor was Rückstoß und Federbefähigung des Chassis angeht...
Schneemann
Zitat:Ethiopia modifies APCs into self-propelled guns [...]https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/def...elled-guns
The FDF released a photograph on 7 August showing at least four Chinese-made WZ551 6×6 APCs mounted with 122 mm D-30 guns/howitzers. The ordnance was fitted so it could be operated by gunners standing in the troop compartment, with a new shield providing them with limited frontal protection.
The combination was almost certainly seen in television news coverage of a visit by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to the Defence Engineering Industry Corporation's complex near Bishoftu on 17 May, although it was obscured by a Type 89 tracked APC that had undergone a similar conversion. This or another Type 89 fitted with a 122 mm gun was almost certainly seen behind the modified WZ551s in the 7 August photograph.
It is unclear if the APCs have been fitted with lowerable stabilisers to prevent their suspension from being damaged by recoil.
Schneemann