By Natali Moss
In 2008, a self -propelled article 2C34 "Host" appeared in service of the Russian army, and at the same time it started its mass production. Host is a hybrid of a self-propelled gun and a 120mm mortar. Experts noted that this "host" can be called "deep modernization" SAU 2C1 "carnation" using the experience of self -propelled mortar 2C31 "Vena".
According to the stated characteristics, the hostal SAU can fire for only up to 13 kilometers, while the shooting rate is ten shots per minute with an ammunition up to 40 shots. The SAU crew - 4 people, and the combat mass is 17 tons. Defense Express believes that due to such conceptual ambiguity and characteristics of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, they probably did not order the production of a large amount of CAU.
Instead, The Military Balance 2022 states that at the beginning of a full -scale invasion, the Russian military had only 50 articles of this type. In particular, the Dutch Oryx intelligence site counted only one destroyed Host and two more, which became the trophies of the "tractor troops" of the Armed Forces in March-April 2022. We will remind, in March 2022 it became known that Ukrainian fighters seized the Host during the fighting. Armored vehicles found territorial defense forces.
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