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The forgotten long-range self-propelled gun on the chassis of the Minsk MZKT-8007 "Volat"

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Image Source: Photo: Bravery2004

At the very beginning of the XXI century, an interesting self-propelled artillery installation was created on the chassis of the Belarusian all-terrain vehicle MZKT-8007 "Volat", which was almost forgotten. However, even now this combat vehicle looks quite modern and in terms of its main characteristics is close to Western wheeled self-propelled guns.

However, although the Minsk chassis was used, the developers were specialists of the Chinese company Norinco.

Image Source: Photo: Bravery2004

Image Source: Photo: Bravery2004

Perhaps then, 20 years ago, they did not have their own reliable all-terrain vehicle and they decided to use a foreign design.

The Type 89 gun, also known as the PLL-01, can hit targets with a conventional high-explosive shell at a distance of 30,000 m, an active-jet hits at 39 m.

At the beginning of the 21st century, wheeled self-propelled guns were not so popular, the military preferred tracks. Therefore, the tracked version, known as the PLZ-45, was purchased by several Arab countries.

Image Source: Photo: Bravery2004

Interestingly, later the People's Liberation Army of China adopted a more advanced self-propelled gun PLZ-05, which installed a more advanced version of the PLL-01. It was reported that it can hit the enemy already at a range of 53,000 m.

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