A new hybrid in the Armed Forces: TRI fighters showed a KS-19 gun based on a truck (photo)

The 100-mm anti-aircraft gun, which was adopted in 1948, was installed on the Tatra car chassis. The installation can fire for air purposes at a distance of up to 15 km or for land purposes with a direct traffic. The fighters of the 241st Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces published on October 10 a photo of a makeshift fighting machine on the basis of Tatra truck with a 100mm CS-19 anti-aircraft gun, which was adopted in 1948.

According to Defense Express experts, the unusual hybrid is where the KS-19 guns were used, which were used in the towed version this summer. "Art, 241 Separate Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the horrific dream of the invaders," Ukrainian fighters wrote on Facebook. Experts suggested that the KS-19 guns could be received directly from the warehouses where the Armed Forces were stored.

Another option is in the pictures that the gun, which Russian invaders were thrown in the Kharkiv region in the fall of 2022. It is unknown how many such guns can be involved in TRO. Also open is the question - how many ammunition is available to Ukrainian fighters to a fairly old gun. Although a certain number of shells, the observers, could still be stored in Ukrainian warehouses.

The anti-aircraft installation of the KS-19 provided the fight against air purposes with speeds of up to 1200 km/h and a height of up to 15 km. Medium-fire gun 14-15 shots per minute. Moreover, such frequency was achieved through mechanized operations, namely: installation of a detonator, sending a cartridge, closing the shutter, firing, opening the shutter and extraction of the sleeve.

Depending on the duration of fire, the mode of firing also changes: 100-mm gun uses two types of charges: O-415 weighing 15. 6 kg and NDT-3 18/1 weighing 5. 5 kg, with a projectile has a flight speed of 900 m/s . As for combat use, according to open sources, KS-19 was used during wars in Korea and Vietnam. Earlier it was reported that Russian troops are expecting the supply of the latest 120 mm of self-propelled 2C40 "Flox".