"Vika" self-propelled gun

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Hello ! Today I’d like to suggest the addition of a rather obscure vehicle. In fact, there is next to no literature mentioning it.
Since it has no known definitive name, I’ll refer to it by the name of its R&D project, “Vika”.


One of the few photos of the “Vika”

History

Spoiler

During the 1980s, Soviet engineers worked on a way to give the airborne troops more firepower while keeping a lightweight vehicle. This led to many experimental works, some of the most famous ones being “Sprut” and “Obzhimka”. The latter used a peculiar chassis, one of a vehicle that was developed more than a decade ago : the 934, also known as “Sudya”. This chassis was light enough and provided more substantial protection than older hulls.


The 934 was one of the most advanced amphibious tanks built by the USSR yet it met a tragic fate

In their quest for more firepower, Soviet engineers started working on adapating 152 mm guns to the platform. While the 934 chassis was nothing but a testbed, it was a great hull to see how such a light tank would cope with bigger guns.
Engineers would adapt the gun used on the “Akatsiya” to make it fit the smaller turret. A new and more noticeable muzzle brake would be installed.

“Vika” during firing tests

While trials were successful, “Vika” went nowhere but showed that light chassis could cope well with those large guns. It directly led to the creation of a famous testbed using a 152 mm gun on a “Planyor” chassis.

“Vika” led to the creation of an even more powerful vehicle, armed with a 152 mm gun


A more modern slide about the vehicle

Specifications

Crew : 4

  • Driver
  • Gunner
  • Commander
  • Loader

Armament

  • One 152 mm gun 2A33 (Ammo : 25)
    Sights : 1G44, TPN-3 (gunner), Agat-TP (commander)
    Elevation : -2~3 / +20 (estimated)
    Rate of fire : 4 to 6 rounds per minute

Dimensions

  • Weight : ~ 18 t to 21 t (fully loaded)
  • Length : 9,43 m (gun included)
  • Width : 3,15 m
  • Height : 2,25 m

Mobility

  • Engine : 2V-06 (400 hp)
  • Top speed : 70 kph (10 in water) / -20 kph
  • Transmission : 4 forward / 2 reverse

Armor

The tank was required to withstand the following threats, as shown on this small drawing I made. It is made in accordance with the Soviet rules of calculating a protection arc, off the hull and a bit behind the turret. The armor is made of ABT-101 alloy.

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Sources

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Looks like a 152mm-armed Obj. 906! I love the idea! +1

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It’s a 2A36

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But with the Object 934 hull.

Are you sure it’s not a 2A33? The 2A36 has a barrel nearly twice as long.

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This
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no not more unbalanced russian tanks for high-toptier please

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It’s literally just a self-propelled howitzer. Would basically be the 2S3M except amphibious.

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Seems fun.

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image

👉👈

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+1 why not

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what is that?
I need to know now.

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What is that? I would like to know.

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I’m pretty sure it’s the Object 14

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I see now, after doing some digging into the Object 14 (idk why it’s named that), at-the-moment it seems that somewhere along the lines different projects and ideas from; the Object 934 “Vika” project, the “Planter-1” project, the Nona-2 project, and the Object 14 found “recently” are connected in different ways. Considering the similarities with the vehicles, some being one in the same hull or chassis (like with Object 14 in photo’s above, Nona-2, “Planter-1” and Object 14 in recent photos), and the testing of all the vehicles (especially “Vika” and Object 14) along with the info provided above and in another set of sources (idk how trust worthy all the sources seem, whether they (the vehicles) are all even connected more or less) it would seem that they are connected. It’s still very surprising and be very interesting to learn and hopefully we could learn more, especially with the lack of information.
I have been interested vehicles before but this interested me enough to go do some digging further and I’m quite happy about that. Just like with another one of Russia’s projects that resulted in one of the biggest tracked SPH/M in the world, the 2B1 ‘Oka’ and it’s sisters the 2A3 ‘Kondensator’ 2P and (my favorite) the S-103 420mm Recoilless “Rifle”.

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