2S23 "Nona-SVK", full kit

The NONA-SVK Self-propelled Gun is intended to engage artillery means, manpower, light armoured targets, missile launchers and command posts. The gun is mounted on the chassis of the BTR-80 Armoured Personnel Carrier and retains its basic mobility characteristics. The distinctive feature of the NONA-SVK is the 120-mm 2A60 Rifled Semi-Automatic Gun mounted on the rotating turret.

The gun is capable of delivering aimed direct and indirect fire employing HE 120-mm Russian-made projectiles, and mines of both Russian and NATO standards. Consequently, the gun constitutes a hybrid of a howitzer and mortar that can provide fire support for mechanised infantry sub-units in all types of combat. The auxiliary weapon set comprises a 7.62-mm machine gun mounted on the turret roof, a smoke-screen system, as well as sighting and night-vision devices. Specialists throughout the world appreciate the need to equip high mobility combat units (paratroops, airmobile and naval infantry) with a powerful artillery system that can correspond to ways of their shipment and mobility in terms of their marching and maneuvering characteristics.