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The Czech Republic has supplied Ukraine with another batch of mobile anti-aircraft systems to combat Russian kamikaze drones. A column of MR-2 Viktor complexes from Excalibur Army was spotted moving along one of the busy highways. Some information resources claim that the complexes are already located on the territory of Ukraine.
The APU will soon receive a second batch of MR-2 Viktor mobile anti-aircraft guns, it is not known how many vehicles entered it. Kiev was supposed to receive the first one at the end of March, then it was reported about the assembly of fifteen ZSU at one of the enterprises of the Czech company Excalibur Army. Moreover, the first batch of installations was paid for by Ukrainian volunteers, the remaining hundred of the same mobile ZSU for Ukraine should be paid for by the Netherlands.
As already reported, the MR-2 Viktor ZSU is a paired anti-aircraft installation of two 14.5 mm machine guns mounted on a pickup truck. Such a complex is capable of quickly changing the firing location and hitting targets at a range of up to 2 kilometers. Ammunition - 300 rounds in two belts and an additional stock of another 300 pieces.
The installation is capable of firing at aerial targets and at night, for this it is equipped with a night anti-aircraft sight, there is also a daytime one. For shooting at ground targets with direct fire, there is its own sight.
In Kiev, they say that such anti-aircraft installations are necessary for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to combat kamikaze drones of the Geranium type used by Russia, for the neutralization of which the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not have the necessary means. The new mobile complexes should replace numerous homemade pickups based on pickups with machine guns mounted on them in the APU.
