Soviet howitzer D-30 caliber 122 mm continue to be used to create a hybrid self-propelled guns. So, in Libya the local "Kulibin" managed to install this tool on a famous American M113 armored personnel carrier, writes the Russian newspaper.
Military experts find it difficult to say, how well this "invention". Ten-ton tracked vehicle made of aluminum and hardly suitable for such a purpose. Previously, these APCs to be found mounted with mortars, a variety of anti-tank and heavy machine guns.
To facilitate installation, howitzers craftsmen had to dismantle the feed door and the roof of the troop compartment cars. If one of the advantages of a tool in the towed version had the opportunity to fire in any direction, here it can only shoot forward.
Judging by the photos, such modernization have been subjected to at least three armored.
As the author, This mutant does not go to any comparison with the Egyptian SP122 self-propelled, which also armed Soviet D-30 howitzer and represents full SAU. true, the Egyptian article also has a tower with a circular rotation.
Also in Egypt set a D-30 for cars Ural-4320. Similar wheeled self-propelled guns are at the armies of Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Serbia and other countries.
