The fire control system allows you to conduct it both at large elevation angles and direct aiming.

Military expert Oleh Zhdanov named the key features of the Finnish-Swedish AMOS installation. It works practically in semi-automatic mode and can make a single hit on a target in 14 minutes from two barrels.

“Indeed, there is a very good installation, it is a Finnish-Swedish joint development – a self-propelled double-barreled 120-mm smoothbore self-loading breech-loading mortar tower. The tower itself, it is designed as a fire module, it is installed either on a wheel base or on small Minom boats. : 120 millimeters, a smooth barrel, mines are loaded from the breech side,” he said during a broadcast on YouTube, answering questions about what characteristics the system has and how it can help the Ukrainian military.

According to the expert, two people are needed to maintain the installation, but it is self-charging. And it works practically in semi-automatic mode.

“The fire control system allows you to conduct it both at large elevation angles, that is, as a mortar – its maximum elevation angle is 85 degrees – and direct aiming. The minimum elevation angle is -3 degrees, that is, the barrels can even go below the horizon by 3 degrees. But direct shooting targeting is used only in the case of self-defense,” he added.

Zhdanov noted that the feature of the installation is its rate of fire.

“Its rate of fire is 12 shots per minute, but it can make a single hit on a target in 14 minutes from two barrels. That is, it actually gives the effect of the work of an almost full-fledged artillery battery. When firing begins from the maximum angle of elevation at the maximum charge, further due to automation the barrel lowers, the charge decreases and firing continues, it turns out that the projectile arrives at the same point. The first mine touches the ground, and the 14th one leaves the barrel. That is, it hangs on the trajectory for 14 minutes and they explode one after another in Almost simultaneously they fly to the aiming point, and after 30 seconds this mortar is not in position. This is its main advantage,” the expert emphasized.

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