2S4 Tyulpan crews on combat mission

2S4 Tyulpan crews on combat mission Military reconnaissance personnel of the West group of troops in the Kupyansk direction identified fortified strongholds in which manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were hiding. After receiving the command to destroy the detected targets, the crew of the Tyulpan self-propelled mortar immediately moved to an unprepared firing position. At the same time, the drone operators indicated a safe route for the mortarmen, and air defense crews covered them from attacks by Ukrainian MLRS and attack drones. The mortar was fired at a critically close distance to the line of combat contact, taking into account the adjustment of reconnaissance units and unmanned aircraft on the ground. The distance to the targets is five and seven kilometers. There are two mines for each. With accurate rapid fire, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strongholds were destroyed, and the enemy suffered significant losses. Work on this firing point has been completed. The crew of the Tyulpan turned the installation, and the barrel from the combat position to the stowed position. In the shortest possible time, the crew left the firing position at maximum speed and took a different route. 240-mm self-propelled mortars 2S4 Tyulpan are designed to destroy and destroy durable field-type structures, fortified buildings adapted by the enemy to shelter manpower and equipment, fortifications, command posts, artillery and missile batteries and other enemy combat armored vehicles, as well as the destruction objects that, due to their high security, cannot be destroyed by smaller caliber artillery pieces. To fire a mortar, no special preparation of the position before shooting is required. The 2S4 Tyulpan self-propelled mortar is the only mortar of this caliber in the world and has no analogues. Join Military Wave Источник: Military Wave