![]() ![]() The S-60 is a Soviet 57 mm anti-aircraft gun deployed in the Soviet Army in 1950, which became the primary anti-aircraft artillery system of the Warsaw Pact along with the ZU-23 guns. In the future, they were supposed to be replaced by anti-aircraft guns acquired in the Notec program, but this problem has not yet been solved. Those still in use by the Polish Army have been modernized by integrating them with the new Blenda automated fire control system. It is not known which variant will be transferred to Ukraine and how many guns will be handed over, whether they will be non-modernized units from the Military Property Agency, which may still have quite significant quantities of this artillery anti-aircraft system, or whether they are already modernized S -60MB from the US Polish Fleet. Poland declared it would transfer its 57 mm S-60 anti-aircraft guns, with 70,000 rounds of ammo. The UK, Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland can be found among the contributing nations. On 24 January 2023 a declaration was published in Tallinn, concerning another military aid package for Ukraine.
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