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Excalibur Army introduces a new Morana howitzer

  • June 16, 2022
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Czech company Excalibur Army presented a prototype of the new Morana self-propelled howitzer at the Eurosatory exhibition in Paris. Defense Blog received a 155 mm caliber gun on

Excalibur Army introduces a new Morana howitzer

Czech company Excalibur Army presented a prototype of the new Morana self-propelled howitzer at the Eurosatory exhibition in Paris. Defense Blog received a 155 mm caliber gun on the car on a wheeled chassis.

The car is based on the all-wheel drive chassis Tatra Force with a wheel formula of 8×8. The self-propelled howitzer received an armored cabin and 155-millimeter guns with a barrel length of 52 caliber (8.06 meters), placed in an uninhabited rotating turret.

The onboard control system of the machine allows you to prepare the howitzer for firing in 40 seconds. The crew can fire the car, reload and aim guns from the cockpit. The vehicle also received an on-board diagnostic system that displays the basic parameters of the howitzer on the screen.

It is stated that the modular design of the Morana allows you to install an armed turret on different wheeled and tracked platforms.

Source: Port Altele

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