New EVA 6x6 155mm self-propelled howitzer unveiled by Slovak Defence Minister at IDET 2015 2405151

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New EVA 6x6 155mm self-propelled howitzer unveiled by Slovak Defence Minister at IDET 2015.
At IDET 2015, the International Exhibition of Defence and Security Technologies, which was held from 19 to 21 May 2015 in Brno, Czech Republic, the Slovakian Minister of Defence Martin Glvác has unveiled the new EVA Slovak-made 155mm / 52 cal. light truck-carried howitzer EVA developed and designed by the Slovak Company Konstrukta Defence.
     
At IDET 2015, the International Exhibition of Defence and Security Technologies, which was held from 19 to 21 May 2015 in Brno, Czech Republic, the Slovakian Minister of Defence Martin Glvác has unveiled a new 155mm / 52 cal. light truck-carried howitzer EVA developed and designed by the Slovak Company Konstrukta Defence New Slovak-made EVA 155mm 6x6 self-propelled howitzer at IDET 2015, the International Exhibition of Defence and Security Technologies in Brno, Czech Republic.
     
KONŠTRUKTA-Defence, a.s. is a successor company of KONŠTRUKTA Trencín, National Enterprise, founded in 1953 in the city of Trencín after a defense division of ŠKODA Plzen, Czech Republic, was moved to Dubnica nad Váhom, a town located in the north-west Slovakia nearby Trencín. Later in 1957 KONŠTRUKTA built a sophisticated testing facility known as the Testing Operation at Lieskovec, which came closer to its aim - to ensure developmental of military equipment projects in its own workplaces and to eliminate travelling of designers to distant places and to ensure the projects without useless over-costs wasted on transport, accommodation and boarding.

“In terms of the government’s Programme Declaration, we support the Slovak arms industry at the maximum possible rate. Each new product stands for an evidence, that our defence companies still have a lot to offer,” stated the minister.

The EVA 155mm 6x6 self-propelled howitzer is a new product in the category of mobile gun system as the French Caesar or the Serbian Nora. The main armament consists of a 155mm 52 caliber cannon.

The gun system is mounted on a mobile platform at the rear of the truck chassis and can be fully controlled from inside the crew cabin at the front of the truck. It has a traverse from +60° on each side and a elevation from -3.5° to +75°. The fully automatic loading system is mounted at the rear of weapon platform with 12 projectiles and 12 powder charges ready to fire. Another 12 projectiles and 12 powder charges are carried in hermetical packing on the truck chassis

Within the static presentation of the Slovak Ministry of Defence exhibits, a full range of Slovak equipment and combat vehicle was showed at IDET 2015, including the EVA 155mm mobile guin, the self-propelled gun howitzer ZUZANA 2 and Zuzana 2000, military materiel determined for international crisis management, the IVECO vehicle with a mechanical turret, as well as a battery command vehicle with the DELOSYS artillery system. In the form of dynamic demonstrations, Slovak soldiers exhibited also a light multi-purpose vehicle with a mechanical turret, and a decontamination vehicle.