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A photo of the MT-LB that appeared a few days ago with the ship's 2M-3M anti-aircraft gun installed has already been widely distributed on the Network. As it turned out, this is not a single craft of army craftsmen who decided to invent a new anti-aircraft installation, but quite a serial version. At least, an echelon with similar installations moving towards the front has already been filmed.
A couple of days ago, a photo of a motoliga appeared on the Network with a 2M-3M shipboard memory installed. In the basic configuration, such towers are armed with two automatic guns M-110 caliber 25 mm. But in this case, when installed on the MT-LB, the guns were replaced with two KPVT machine guns of 14.5 mm caliber, several sources report this, although it is possible that some of the installations come with "native" barrels. The tower is inhabited, the calculation is 2 people, but what is inside is unknown, there are no pictures.
As it turned out, this is not a single artisanal craft, but quite serial machines, the supply of which to the SVO zone is quite active. Footage of an echelon with similar installations appeared on Russian Internet resources, as well as MT-LB with the same towers in a parking lot somewhere in the area of the SVO zone.
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The choice of "motoliga" as the base car is the most acceptable option because of its cross-country ability. In general, the MT-LB is not used for the first time as a base chassis for various installations, both artillery and other purposes. The choice of a ship's artillery installation as a tower is ambiguous. However, the military in the SVO zone say that the car is good, and the idea is sound.
The 2M-3M artillery system was developed in the early 1950s as a means of self-defense of small ships. The rate of fire of two 25-mm M-110 submachine guns is 270-300 rounds per minute per barrel. The range of destruction of ground targets is up to 3 km, in height - 2.8 km.
