Russian armed forces artillery brigades to receive 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV howitzers in the near future 11811163

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Russian armed forces artillery brigades to receive 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV howitzers in the near future.
Artillery brigades of the Russian armed forces will begin to receive latest generation of Russian-made tracked self-propelled howitzer 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV in the near future, said the Major General Mikhail Matveevsky, chief of missile and artillery troops.
     
Artillery brigades of the Russian armed forces will begin to receive latest generation of Russian-made tracked self-propelled howitzer 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV in the near future, said the Major General Mikhail Matveevsky, chief of missile and artillery troops. Russian-made 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV 152mm tracked self-propelled howitzer at Russian Arms Expo 2015 in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.
     
"The planned purchase and supply of new 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV into the artillery brigades will begin in the near future," Matveevsky said.

Russia's state-of-the-art Koalitsiya-SV self-propelled guns will serve as the blueprint for robotized artillery systems in the future, chief of the Land Force's missile and artillery troops, added the Major General Mikhail Matveevsky.

The 2S35 prototype unveiled in May 2015 was based on the T-72/90 chassis, though the Armata platform will be presumably used in the future.The 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV is designed to replace the 2S19 MSTA-S self-propelled artillery howitzers in service with the Russian armed forces since many years.

The 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV tracked self-propelled howitzer is armed with the new 2A88 cannon 152mm which is under development.

The 2S35 can fire a wide range of munitions, including standard and rocket-assisted HE-FRAG projectiles, cluster projectiles with anti-tank submunitions, jammer carrying projectiles. It has a maximum firing range of 30 km with standard ammunitions and around 40 km with rocket-assisted projectile. The S2S35 is also able to fire a new generation of 9K25, the 152 mm Krasnopol laser-guided projectile which has a maximum range of 20 km.