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Indirect Fires Modernization Project - C3/M777 Replacement

Kirkhill said:
And when you can't make up your mind

www.usni.org

Create a Hybrid Cannon-Missile Battery

As the Marine Corps shifts its force structure toward the 2030 end state, it's making room for more over-the-horizon fires assets in the form of medium-range and long-range missile batteries.
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Local defence howitzers - cool.

Kirkhill said:
www.forbes.com

Russia Hits Immobile And Predictable M-777, AHS Krab, And M-109 Howitzers Hard

With Russia hitting more than 30% of Ukraine's NATO-standard M-777 guns, the fight to save Ukraine suggests that, on the modern battlefield, unpredictable mobility is life.
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I love these little exposes from the front. Last month is that mobile howitzers died while dug in towed guns thrived. This month . . .

Kirkhill said:
www.twz.com

Ukraine Is Burning Through 155mm M777 Howitzer Barrels So Fast The U.S. Army Can't Keep Up

The U.S. Army is now trying to meet a requirement to produce at least 30 new barrels for M777 howitzers every month.
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That makes sense too.

If you have a large no man's land dominated by drones that your artillery won't survive in then you place your guns further back as does the other dude. The further back your guns and targets go the higher a charge you need to reach the range. The higher the charge the faster the barrel wear.

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And the need for bullets

A problem exacerbated by China owning most of the world's steel foundries fuelled by metallurgical coal from BC. A direct result of us westerners shipping Mike Rowe's dirty jobs to China so we could retire in a green paradise enjoying the lotuses.

Sorry kids. No jobs.



breakingdefense.com

Drones don’t win wars, stockpiles do: The case for a US-India munitions partnership - Breaking Defense

As stockpiling munitions becomes increasingly more important, India and the US should team up to create an "arsenal alliance," writes Kriti Upadhyaya from The Heritage Foundation.
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Nice...

US Army wants to manufacture 30,000 155mm cluster shells per year​



The U.S. Army is looking for companies that can manufacture the new XM1208 155mm cluster shell — and a number of them.

The goal, according to a market survey published Nov. 20, is to find contractors who can manufacture up to 30,000 XM1208 rounds per year.

The U.S. is currently producing 40,000 artillery shells per month, as America and Europe struggle to ramp up production of howitzer munitions in response to the war in Ukraine.

The Nov. 20 market survey, meanwhile, noted that the XM1208 can be produced by multiple manufacturers.

“Sources shall include their minimum sustaining and maximum capacity rates,” the Army said.


www.defensenews.com

US Army wants to manufacture 30,000 155mm cluster shells per year

The XM1208 cluster shell, which carries nine M99 Advanced Submunitions, is designed to be fired from both the M109A6/7 Paladin and M777A2 howitzers.
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Colin Parkinson said:
I am surprised GDLS has not offered this....

It's boutique, uses the same gun as we have, not used by anyone else. Does not quite fit our requirements, it's so Canadian..


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It's not a GDLS product. It uses what is basically a modified BAE Bradley chassis with a BAE M777 grafted to it. It was part of an early (2006-8 or so) testbed for one of the eight Manned Ground Vehicle variants. The main NLOS-C prototype, the XM1203, had an armoured turreted system. The NLOS-Cs were also the only MGV prototype actually produced before the program was cancelled.
quadrapiper said:
Are those a testing safety item, or some sort of plow anchor?
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They're just there for testing.

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