Western observers drew attention to the appearance of Russian troops in service, operating in the NWO zone, tractor MT-LB, armed with a T-12 cannon.
The first such sample was created by the Ukrainian side. The Russians copied this self-propelled gun and created their own fire support vehicle based on the MT-LB, by integrating a tractor with a T-12 anti-tank gun- indicated in the western press.
As noted, this model, equipped with a 100 mm towed gun, has significant firepower and allows you to destroy any equipment, except tanks, from great distances.
Ukrainians, and now the Russians, often use vehicles such as improvised artillery. We currently know of at least two such samples., available from the Russian side (one of them was damaged), and three for the APU- said in the media.
T-12 - Soviet towed 100 mm anti-tank gun, adopted by the Soviet army in 1961 year as a successor to the BS-3 guns of the same caliber. It was the first smoothbore gun in its category.. Armor-piercing projectile 3BM23, released from T-12, allows you to break through armor thickness 225 mm from a distance 1000 m. It's enough, for example, to destroy German Leopard tanks 1. The cumulative projectile 3BK16M already copes with 400 mm steel, and the 9K117 "Kastet" guided missile - with 550-600 mm armor.
AT 1971 an improved version was developed, designated T-12A / MT-12 "Rapier", which acquired a new armor plate, covering the calculation of the gun, and could be towed by MT-LB.
