By Eliza Popova
"It seems that the problem with artillery, or more precisely, with the filling of the troops of the SAU, forces Russia to return to life so ugly projects that language simply cannot be. In Russia, unlike T-80 and MSTA-S, as an example, and therefore will be dull, but the concept itself, there are doubts about viability, "Kovalenko wrote. The observer noted that the idea of creating the SAU 2C18 "PJSC-C" emerged in the 1980s.
Its essence was to produce a self-propelled artillery installation of a 152-mm caliber that could swim. The main tool was the rifle barrel 2A63, which was located on the BMP-3 chassis. "That is, a kind of Msta-S (conditional), but not on the T-80 chassis, but the dead BMP-3," the observer writes. According to Kovalenko, the Russians try to provide the front as possible with the maximum amount of new 152 mm SAU.
In May, Roszmi reported that "Kurganmashzavod" was engaged in modernization of the self-propelled howitzer 2C18 "PJSC-C", the only research model of which was released in the 1980s in the USSR. The 152 millimeter gaubs will be installed on the refined chassis of the BMP-3 infantry fighting machine. Focus wrote on August 1 that the Ukrainian 155-mm self-propelled article "Bogdan" version 3.
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