Distant control was added: the ZO-23-2 anti-aircraft ZAC-23-2 was upgraded in the Russian Federation (photos)

Experts noted that such systems could find their place in the range of Ukrainian troops to more effectively destroy the air goals and the live power of the enemy. In 2013, the Russian defense defense decided to modernize the old anti-aircraft installation of ZU-23, but it never went to mass production. And in the summer of 2023 it became known that the ZU-23-2 received another "reincarnation"-the installation received remote control (DU) and block of optical and electronic equipment (OLS).

The Defense Express observers write about it. The project of ZU-23/30m1-3 and its variant ZU-23/30m1-4 were developed by the Podilsky electromechanical plant "PEMZ Specialmash". Designers have decided to create a new version of the ZU-23 anti-aircraft system, which could perform combat tasks in modern conditions.

Although the main tool of the installation was all the same automatic gun 2A14 caliber 23 mm, Zenit received electrical drives of the guidance system, mounting for the installation of two MAZRC "Ila". The installation was also equipped with an optical-electronic unit with a thermal imaging channel and laser guidance.

The presentation of the upgraded ZU-23-2 with the OBS block for detection of air targets was presented on June 26 by the governor of the Tula region Alexei Dumin at the Forum "Engineers of the Future". Viewers write that the detailed characteristics of the new system Russian engineers do not reveal.

In particular, the main questions remain unanswered-at what distance the OLS provides the identification and support of the goals at what distance remote control is possible, if it exists at all, and how the PMU-23-2 is powered in remote control. The authors of the publication believe that such developments would not prevent Ukrainian defenders who need the means of damage to the air goals. For example, Tureli with a machine gun is already successfully used by our fighters.

"It is quite possible that the development of such a configuration, that is, something like ZU-23-2 with a unit of remote control, could find its place in the Armed Forces, to combat the air purposes or the enemy's living purposes or the living power," the observers said. Earlier it was reported that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in June for the first time used the so-called tank-Kamikadze against Ukrainian fighters.