DITA'S THE NAME

A technology named after a girl or a women makes for an interesting insight.

- Milan Olsansky

CLAT the recent international military technology fair IDEX 2021 in Abu Dhabi (SAE), a state-of-the-art self-propelled canon howitzer made news because of its technological prowess. It also made news because of its name DITA, which would ideally represent a girl or a women. Presented by Czech companies CSG and Tatra, the self-propelled canon howitzer, as a technological demonstrator, is based on the proven Tatra 815 model series chassis, which is more than four decade old! A combat superstructure of an automatically charged 155 mm caliber howitzer is located on the chassis. It is situated such that the autonomous superstructure functions as part of an automatic charging system and an ultra-modern fire control system. The three make main trumps of a combat vehicle on a wheeled chassis with an interesting and relatively long history within several European, Asian and African armies. The ShkH 155 mm DITA is a direct descendant of the original combat system ShkH Dana 152 mm vz. 77, which came into service in the then Czechoslovak People’s Army in 1977. That again was over forty years ago.

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