ZU-23-2

Eintrag

Relevanz für Konflikte

Dies ist der einzige Eintrag des Katalogs zu diesem System. Es ist für das unten genannte Modul relevant; der Force Atlas jedes Moduls zeigt, wie es dort eingesetzt wird.

Betreiber

Malian Armed Forces (FAMa): Also documented in armed-group hands on captured technicals. · JNIM: Captured pieces mounted on pickups appear in the group's own footage of its 2023–2026 attacks; no count recorded. · Azawad Liberation Front (FLA): Mounted on technicals in the northern columns; captured from state stocks or inherited from the 2012 rebellion's arsenals.

Rolle auf dem Gefechtsfeld

The Sahel war's heavy weapon of choice: truck-mounted ZU-23-2s give both army columns and insurgent raids their heaviest direct fire. With no air threat to engage, the type's meaning in this conflict is entirely ground combat.

Typical employment

Mounted on a pickup as the heavy weapon of a column: suppression of positions and vehicles at a range machine guns cannot reach, and the weapon most often cited in the raiding and convoy engagements the module records.

How the system is commonly used, at the level of published analysis — never a procedure, a loadout or an engagement envelope.

Stärken

A high rate of fire from two 23 mm barrels, light enough to tow behind or bolt onto a pickup, and simple enough to keep firing without a supply chain; ammunition is among the most widely traded in the region.

Einschränkungen

Unstabilised area fire, indiscriminate at range; documented in armed-group hands on captured technicals — the standard route by which state stocks circulate into insurgent arsenals. No use against aircraft is documented in this conflict, and the drone threat that has grown since 2023 is one it cannot engage.

Typically used alongside

• Technicals (bewaffnete Pick-ups)Konfidenz: hoch

  The pickup is the carriage: the gun's meaning in this war is as the heaviest weapon a technical carries.

Relevanz für Kampagnen

Abgeleitet: Eine beteiligte Organisation dieser Kampagnen hat eine typisierte Ausrüstungszuordnung zu diesem System. Das ist nicht dasselbe wie ein dokumentierter Einsatz des Systems in der Kampagne selbst.

• Kampagne der JNIM-Treibstoffblockade Declared September 2025; eased and reimposed since

  via Malian Army (Armée de Terre) (Documented)

Visuelle Erkennung

Two long thin barrels side by side on a small two-wheeled carriage with a gunner's seat behind; when truck-mounted, the carriage is bolted to the bed of a pickup with the wheels removed.

Dokumentierter Einsatz im Konflikt

Documented on army technicals in intervention columns and on captured pickups in JNIM and FLA footage from the 2012 rebellion to the 2026 offensives; appears in ACLED-coded engagements on both sides. No employment against aircraft or drones is documented.

Betreibende Teilstreitkräfte und Dienste

• Malian Army (Armée de Terre) Dokumentiert