CZK - Samota (30 mm čtyřhlavňový PL kanón)

Solitude - project of self-propelled 30 mm PL four-cannon. The PL four-cannon was to be equipped with a control radar and a command post. 30 mm cannons were derived from 30 mm PL cannons used in PLdvK vz. 53 ( PLdvK vz. 53/59). The project was solved by VVÚ ZVS Brno (led by Ing. Miroslav Kotík and Ing. Jozef Koch). The project was completed without the introduction of equipment. Simultaneously with the project of a self-propelled quadron cannon, the project of an automated battery equipped with this system was developed under the designation Stojka





Source: www.palba.cz (Popelínský, Lubomír: Czechoslovak automatic weapons and their creators, NV 1999, ISBN 978 -80-206-0567-3)
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In 1958, the development of a self-propelled 30 mm antiaircraft four gun ( codename SAMOTA) began at Konstrukte Trenčín.
Exact name : "30 mm self-propelled antiaircraft four-cannon with radio control radar and command post SAMOTA". This is the period around 1959.
"Due to the vagueness of some of the requirements and their considerable changes, many works were stopped already in the development stages".


Stopped on the recommendation of the USSR of 3.12.1959 with regard to the development of rocket technology.



Source: ŠTAIGL, Jan Arms Production in Slovakia in 1954 - 1960, p. 67, VOJENSKÁ HISTÓRIA 2003/1 VHÚ Bratislava
Bílek, Jiří, a.i. : The Czechoslovak People's Army in the Warsaw Pact coalition ties. MoD 2008

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