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2S35 Koalitsiya-SV
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While Russia is well known for making outlandish claims about its military hardware, the new 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV, by all accounts, may live up to the hype.
First unveiled in 2015, the Koalitsiya-SV, also known as "Coalition-SV," is a 152mm self-propelled gun that can reportedly fire up to 15-20 rounds a minute, according to The National Interest.
This range of automation is far superior to western guns, like the US M109 Paladin, which fires 6 rounds a minute.
The Coalition-SVs high level of automation also allows it to be operated by a two or three-man crew, while the Paladin requires six.
The Koalitsiya-SV can reportedly fire rounds up to 43 miles, much farther than the Paladin at 18 miles and Great Britain's AS90 Braveheart at 24 miles.
It's also capable of firing a variety of rounds, like standard and rocket-assisted high-explosive fragmentation projectiles, cluster projectiles and jammer projectiles, according to military-today.com. These projectiles, however, unlike Russia's new long-range precision-guided shell, have firing ranges of less than 43 miles.
Given Moscow's budgetary problems, we'll have to wait and see if the Coalition-SV is mass produced.
In any event, the "introduction of ... the Koalitsiya-SV [is] a significant boost to the Russian Ground Forces' artillery forces," Dave Majumdar wrote in The National Interest in June.
Check out the Coalition-SV in action below: