At the 7th International Defense Exhibition IDEB-2018, held between May 16 and 18, 2018 in the Slovak capital Bratislava, the KONSTRUKTA Defense Company (actually the artillery KB, part of the Slovak holding company DMD Group), together with the Czech-Slovak Association Czechoslovak Group Yaroslav Strnada (CSG, partly controls the DMD Group) presented a new version of the EVA 155-mm / 52 self-propelled howitzer on the wheeled chassis. The new version of EVA is made on a wheeled chassis of 8x8, unlike the variant on the chassis of the 6x6, which was demonstrated in 2015.
In the new EVA version, the 155 mm / 52 howitzer is mounted on the Tatra T815-7 8 × 8.1R chassis with a wheel arrangement of 8 × 8. The combat mass of the installation is 28 tons, 11.5 meters long, 2.7 meters wide, 3.8 meters high. The machine is equipped with a diesel engine Tatra T3C-928.90 with a capacity of 300 kW and an auxiliary diesel power plant Lombardini 11LD626-3 with a capacity of 30 kW.
A highly automated fire control system includes an autonomous inertial navigation system and a 24-hour Sagem CM3 MR opto-electronic system (including a laser rangefinder and a thermal imager) for direct fire capability. A radar was installed for measuring the initial velocity of the projectile.
The release of the system in the event of receiving orders for it should be carried out on the ZTS - ŠPECIÁL enterprise in Dubnitsa (former leading artillery production of Skoda), which is part of the DMD Group.
