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What You Need to Know About Russia's New 2S42 “Lotos” Self-Propelled Artillery Gun
National Interest ^ | January 6, 2018 | Mark Episkopos

Posted on 01/07/2019 1:01:44 PM PST by C19fan

An image out of an arms manufacturer’s corporate calendar, posted earlier this week, offers a first glimpse at the finalized design of the Russian Air Force's new 2S42 “Lotos” self-propelled artillery gun.

The depiction comes from the official “Central Scientific - Research Institute for Precision Machine Engineering” (TsNIITochMash) Instagram profile, accompanied by a descriptive quote from its head artillery engineer Dmitry Melikhov. Lotos is shown on the August page, likely in recognition of August 2 as being national “Airborne Forces Day” and August 12 as national “Air Force Day” in Russia. The design closely resembles a previous scale model displayed at Russia’s “Army 2017” exhibition.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: artillery; mortar; russia
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To: C19fan

Pretty obviously an redesigned version of their Nona 120mm SP mortar system. It fires a copy of the French 120mm rifled round and its max range is achieved using rocket-assisted projectiles.

No clue in that article about whether the system uses advanced fire control, or what aiming system it uses, or crew size or how many rounds it carries.

We need better spies.


21 posted on 01/07/2019 1:46:27 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: PIF

Believe the unit is air droppable as well as its designed for the airborne...


22 posted on 01/07/2019 1:49:12 PM PST by dpetty121263
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To: Redcitizen

And it only took ten more posts.

Good job.


23 posted on 01/07/2019 1:50:29 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Still Thinking

Those things proved to be a huge burden and clusterfuck. Took rail lines and dissassembly/reassembly to move and position. Hundreds of crew and support troops. Insane logictical trains to support. And they were non-moving targets. Artillery survives by being MOBILE.


24 posted on 01/07/2019 2:56:22 PM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: Yo-Yo

That is an awfully thin walled tube for a gun. Looks more like a mortar to me.


25 posted on 01/07/2019 4:44:10 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: C19fan

LOL!

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/images/2s42-image04.jpg

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/2s42.htm


26 posted on 01/07/2019 5:21:11 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Yo-Yo
According to comments that is not a 2S42 Loto.

This is:


2S42 air-droppable self-propelled 120 mm mortar system (c) vestnik-rm.ru

27 posted on 01/07/2019 6:53:27 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Redcitizen

That is Lodos War, which is fictional, jeez.


28 posted on 01/07/2019 6:56:51 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
I’m glad you’re here to point out the obvious. I posted the link due to the similarity of the title to the original poster’s request.

I read the link before I posted so I knew it was fictional. Sorry if you did not get the humor.

Goodness.

29 posted on 01/07/2019 7:09:25 PM PST by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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To: Sequoyah101
That is an awfully thin walled tube for a gun. Looks more like a mortar to me.

And you'd be right. It is the 2S4 Tulip self-propelled mortar. Here it is in firing position:


30 posted on 01/07/2019 7:34:52 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Redcitizen

I’m equally glad you are here to be as funny as Saturday Night Live.


31 posted on 01/08/2019 4:56:28 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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