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To: C19fan
What You Need to Know About Russia's New 2S42 “Lotos” Self-Propelled Artillery Gun

It makes big boom.


2 posted on 01/07/2019 1:05:37 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

It makes big boom. and is very slow to load ,,, takes many minutes as I recall.


5 posted on 01/07/2019 1:13:01 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Yo-Yo

120mm and a short barrel.

You need a lot of them and they need to be close to their target.


9 posted on 01/07/2019 1:21:57 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Yo-Yo

I’m not sure what that mortar carrier in the picture you posted is, but it is not the S242.


11 posted on 01/07/2019 1:22:56 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Yo-Yo

That is an awfully thin walled tube for a gun. Looks more like a mortar to me.


25 posted on 01/07/2019 4:44:10 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: Yo-Yo
According to comments that is not a 2S42 Loto.

This is:


2S42 air-droppable self-propelled 120 mm mortar system (c) vestnik-rm.ru

27 posted on 01/07/2019 6:53:27 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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