According to Konstrukta Defence, the BIA artillery systems is a continuation of the Zuzana and Eva product development line.
The BIA development has been launched in 2021 on the base of requirements of our business partners, while in the course of development the knowledge and experience from deployment of Zuzana in Ukraine and international training in scope of forefront presence of NATO troops in Latvia have been applied.
The objective of the 155 mm BIA Project development has been to join the advantages of Zuzana 2 and Eva into compact and unique artillery system. The BIA Project leverages particular needs and requirements of the potential users we are closely communicating with:
- 155 mm armament with required technical parameters: firing range, rate of fire, ready-to-fire supply of ammunition,
- high mobility and cross country manouverability,
- lower mass,
- crew protection,
- automation of combat operation performance.
Compared to 155 mm Zuzana 2, BIA is lighter, more mobile with higher mobility while maintaining the same firepower, and compared to 155 mm SpGH EVA, BIA carries a larger supply of ammunition, has higher crew protection and also automation of combat operations.
Currently, the BIA utilizes the latest chassis series from the original chassis supplier for Zuzana 2 howitzers, but based on requests from potential users, work is being done to place the 155 mm weapon system on a chassis from other manufacturers.
“We will not specify potential new suppliers of chassis due to trade secrets, but we can state that one of the manufacturers is a purely Slovak company, which designs a customized chassis for us according to our requirements. Generally, in BIA project, we are interested in involving as many Slovak manufacturers as possible and thereby supporting the Slovak defence industries, however there are some components that are simply not produced on the territory of the Slovak Republic,” Kontrukta Defence said.
