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Anti-aircraft “Viktor”: Czechs raise money for 15 “Shahed-136 killers”

Anti-aircraft “Viktor”: Czechs raise money for 15 “Shahed-136 killers”

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Czech citizens organized a fundraising effort with a plan to spend the collected money on mobile anti-aircraft machine guns for the Ukraine Armed Forces.

This is stated on the page of the campaign “Viktor – mobile air defense of Ukraine.”

Viktor is a Czech twin 14.5 mm anti-aircraft machine gun mounted on the chassis of a Toyota Land Cruiser pickup truck.

The ammunition for the module is 300 loaded and 300 additional rounds.

The anti-aircraft gun has a day and night vision. An effective air targets’ firing range is possible at a distance of up to 2 km.

The main task of Viktor is to combat air threats such as Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.

The campaign’s organizers plan to raise $3.85 mln for the production of 15 combat units. They had managed to raise $80,000 as of November 13.

The campaign is held by activists of the movement “Gift for Putin.” Previously, they had already raised funds for the modernized Т-72 Avenger tank for Ukraine.

The guarantor of fundraising is the Czech businessman Dalibor Dědek.

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