Zuzana 2

Slovakia's autoloading wheeled gun — the Zuzana 2 mounts a fully 360°-traversing 155mm howitzer, fed by an automatic loader, on an 8×8 Tatra truck chassis, firing out to about 40 km. It is the modern, NATO-caliber heir to the Cold War DANA, and — donated and then sold to Ukraine — it has spent the war duelling Russian artillery up and down the front, one of the distinctive wheeled self-propelled guns the conflict has put to the test.

Overview

The Zuzana 2 (SpGH Zuzana 2) is a Slovak 155mm 8×8 wheeled self-propelled gun-howitzer developed by Konštrukta-Defence. It pairs a 155mm/52-calibre gun with an automatic loader (handling both projectile and propellant charge) in a fully-rotating turret mounted on a Tatra 8×8 truck chassis — a distinctively Central European approach to self-propelled artillery that descends from the 152mm DANA and the earlier 155mm Zuzana. The wheeled chassis gives it high road speed and strategic mobility (it can self-deploy long distances quickly), while the autoloader and 360° turret give it a high rate of fire and the ability to engage in any direction. It is a NATO-standard, mobile, long-range artillery system that gives Slovakia (and now Ukraine) a modern shoot-and-scoot capability — and one of the more unusual designs in the Western artillery park.

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