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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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GK .Dundas said:
Does that that thing have some sort.if recoil spade . I don't recall seeing any ?
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It does. The M109 series used to come with two drop down spades located each located between the track on either side and the centre rear hull hatch. We had those all the way to the M109A4+ which was our last version. They stowed upright and were then rotated down until they came into contact with the ground and then you'd back the vehicle up a foot or two to embed the spades. Quite frankly we rarely dropped them down and usually fired with the spades up because it made getting in and out of action faster and meant you didn't have to clean the spades afterwards.

The American M109A5 and 6 still had them. With the switch over to the Bradley hull on the M109A7 the spades were left off.

This vehicle uses the basic Bradley hull but there are no spades like on the prior M109s. What it looks like to me is that there are a pair of hydraulic jacks in the same place on the rear where the spades used to be. This seems to be jacking up the rear end. I'm not sure how long they would last in the long run because the recoil forces would work sideways on what appear to be cylinder rods.

I'm really not sure about the role of this version. My guess is that it was an early model to demonstrate the ability of the Bradley chassis to take the recoil forces - one picture that I've seen says its dated 2003 so even the M777 would have just been a prototype then. The gun didn't enter LRIP until 2005. The eventual XM1203 prototypes that went forward used a modified experimental Crusader turret. It didn't have those jacks on the back.

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They lock down gun platforms in test to force the worst possible recoil energy transfers to the platform.
 
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