Hobby Boss 85501 152mm ShkH DANA vz.77

Dana wz. 1977 is a modern Czech and Slovak self-propelled gun on a wheeled chassis. The first prototypes of this vehicle were made in 1976, and shortly after that, serial production began, which led to the creation of about 670 copies of this car. The vehicle is powered by an engine Tatra T2-930-34 with 345 hp. It is armed with a 152 mm cannon howitzer and a single 12.7 mm DSzKM machine gun.

In the late 1970s, Skoda developed a prototype wheeled self-propelled gun. Thanks to the use of such a chassis, the mobility of the new gun on the road was very high, much greater than that of similar weapons systems on a tracked chassis. It was also decided to lean on the eight-wheeled chassis of the Tatra tractor T-815 VT Kolos - thanks to this, the mobility in the field was also good. After successfully passing the tests Dana wz. 1977 entered service with the Czechoslovak army. It was also exported to Poland, Libya and Georgia. After 1989, two development versions of the Dan self-propelled gun were developed. The first is The ShKH Zuzana, the standard Dana, but armed with a 155 mm cannon howitzer, entered service with the Slovak army in 1998. The Zuzana 2 was also built, in which the 155 mm caliber cannon howitzers were still used, but also the computer-based FCS (fire control system and many other elements of the car were modernized. Zuzana 2 was not entered into serial production).