“Once the document is implemented, the Ukrainian armed forces with be supplied with automatic 30 mm cannons made locally,” the ministry said.

In February, President Viktor Yanukovych said that the Ukrainian army would need to overhaul its major weapons supplies in the next three years.

The cannons are suitable for the installation on light AIFV platforms of various types, such as the BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle , the BMD-2/3 airborne combat vehicles and the BTR80/90 armored personnel carriers.

The weapons of ZTM-1 are controlled mechanically or remotely (in the latter case, using, again, an electric trigger. The cannons deliver high-explosive or armor piercing rounds loaded from belt magazines stored in two ammunition boxes. Each of the automatic cannons is provided with up to 500 rounds of ready use ammunition.

The ZTM-1 cannons can operate independently or as part of the general-purpose SHKVAL remote weapons station mounted on AIFV platforms, in particular, the BMP-1U IFV and the BTR-3U APC. The guns are also suitable for installation on the BMD-1/2 ACV upgrades and other AIFV platforms designed by the Morozov Machine Design Bureau of Kharkiv.