The Centre for Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces (StratCom) of Ukraine has posted a message on Telegram about the update on the war front. It stated that the historic S-60 has been sent to the frontline as a part of “normal” Russian military equipment.
“Another batch of prehistoric crap that the Russians are sending to the front. These are S-60 anti-aircraft guns developed in the 1940s,” Ukrainian StratCom wrote.
S-60 was built right after World War II. The machined is an automatic towed single-barrel anti-aircraft gun. The prototype model of this gun passed the field tests in 1946 and it started service with the Soviet armed forces in 1950.
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The machine has witnessed numerous wars to date. From the technical perspective, S-60 was massively based on German 50mm Flak 41 guns and possibly the prototype Gerät 58 guns captured during World War II.
Flak 41 was used as a base platform by the soviets even though this anti-aircraft gun was one of the least successful models in the German army because of its huge recoil and slow turning (traverse) speed.
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When guided by radar, S-60 can reach a firing range of 6,000 m (20,000 ft). It shoots projectiles at a velocity of 1,000 m/s (3,281 ft/s).