This delivery would be the biggest export success of the Slovak defense industry for 30 years. While most companies in the 1990s ceased their activities – mostly the manufacture of infantry armored vehicles and transport vehicles under license – howitzer production was able to continue in Dubnitz an der Waag (Dubnica nad Váhom) in western Slovakia.
The “Zuzana 2” has a range of 33 kilometers and a caliber of 155 millimeters. It was developed on the basis of the Czechoslovakian Dana models back in the 1990s, so the name has nothing to do with Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová. It can be used in anti-tank combat, but also to destroy command posts and equipment at distant targets, firing five shots per minute.
On Friday, Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced the delivery of S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine. A week earlier, the Ministry of Defense announced the handover of 76 armored fighting vehicles to Finland, which now also wants to join NATO due to the war in Ukraine. Slovakia has been a member of the Defense Alliance for 18 years.
