Vietnam Develops 130 mm Wheeled Self-Propelled Artillery System on Russian KamAZ Chassis

Vietnam has developed the PTH-130 wheeled self-propelled artillery system mounted on a Russian KamAZ-6560 truck chassis.

Photos of the new system were published on X by user T-54BVT.

The images show Vietnamese technicians mounting a 130 mm artillery unit, previously demonstrated on the KrAZ-255B chassis, onto an eight-wheeled KamAZ-6560 (8×8) platform.

The cab on the new chassis appears to have added ballistic protection, likely against 7.62 mm rounds. There has been no official word on changes to the artillery system itself.

PTH-130 has been shown at Vietnamese defence events for several years; plans for a PTH-130-K225B variant date back to 2017. The project followed successful tests of PTH-105, a U.S. 105 mm howitzer mounted on a Ural truck chassis.

KrAZ trucks were supplied to Vietnam during the Soviet era, and in the early 2000s Hanoi attempted local assembly from kits sourced from Ukraine.

The PTH-130’s gun is based on the M-46 130 mm field gun, intended to engage earthworks, enemy artillery, armored vehicles and mortar positions, and to suppress enemy personnel.

Conventional high-explosive fragmentation rounds have a maximum range of more than 27 km; rocket-assisted projectiles can reach about 37 km.