 Ukrainian troops destroyed Russian 2C-3 Akasha self-propelled artillery system in the southern sector. The fighters posted a video of the successful attack on social media. The operators of the 73rd Marine Center of the Special Forces in the southern operational direction detected and identified a camouflaged enemy self-propelled artillery system, 2C-3 Akasha. The commentary to the video reads, the 2S-3 is normally deployed in batteries of six weapons. Three batteries making up a regiment.it is estimated that well over 10,000 of these systems were manufactured. Although no production figures have been released, production of the 2S-3 was completed some years ago. And its replacement is the more recent 152mm self-propelled artillery system, 2S-19. Due to the reduction in the overall size of the Russian army, numbers of weapons are becoming available for sale including quantities of artillery systems such as the 2S-3. The all welded steel hull of the 2S-3 self-propelled gunhowitzer is divided into three compartments, drivers at the front on the left, engine to the right of the driver and the fully enclosed turret at the rear.