General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.

[LoooSeR]

PLA 122 mm SPG - PLZ 89

[LoooSeR]

[LoooSeR]

Spike NLOS in Worst Korea.

[LoooSeR]

Saudi Arabia to buy new Ukrainian-made «Grom-2» tactical missile systems

 

[LoooSeR]

Msta-S

[LostCosmonaut]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KpFaSLrYRw

 

The Russians appear to be developing a railgun, but I can't be sure from the potato subtitles.

 

Railotron!

[Mighty_Zuk]

Thought these might fit here since they're indeed serving in an artillery corps:

 

And the ATMOS in the latest configuration purchased by Thailand:

 

[LoooSeR]

[LoooSeR]

K9 STRNG

[CrashbotUS]

HIMARS

[LoooSeR]

102/35 su SPA 9000 SPG on the Austrian front, 1916-18

 

[LoooSeR]

Kuba decided that BMP-1 is good enough chassis to be modified into SPG

 

 

Egyptian (?) T-34-122 with D-30A howitzer

[Scolopax]

Kuba decided that BMP-1 is good enough chassis to be modified into SPG

 

Another

 

[Ramlaen]

GMLRS Alternative Warhead, a blast/fragmentation alternative to the bomblets of DPICM in the anti-infantry/light armor role.

 

 

And the US policy on cluster munitions.

 

The United States said in a November 25, 2011, statement that the United States would continue to implement the DOD policy on cluster munitions issued June 19, 2008, which recognizes the need to minimize harm to civilians and infrastructure but also reaffirms the contention that “cluster munitions are legitimate weapons with clear military utility.” The central directive in the Pentagon’s new policy is the unwaiverable requirement that cluster munitions used after 2018 must leave less than 1% of unexploded submunitions on the battlefield. Prior to 2018, U.S. use of cluster munitions with a greater than 1% unexploded ordnance rate must be approved by Combatant Commanders. This policy will permit the development of a new generation of cluster munitions less dangerous to civilians. While such a high level of performance might be achievable under controlled laboratory conditions, previously mentioned factors such as delivery technique, landing in soft or muddy ground, getting caught in trees and vegetation, and submunitions being damaged after dispersal or landing could result in an appreciable number of dud submunitions, even if they have a self-deactivation feature.

[Ramlaen]

Misfire.

 

[Belesarius]

New 155 round under development.

 

http://worlddefencenews.blogspot.ca/2016/08/ardec-helps-develop-safer-extended.html

 

 

 

"The XM1113 consists of a high fragmentation steel body with a streamlined ogive, the curved portion of a projectile between the fuze well and the bourrelet, and a high performance rocket motor. The projectile body is filled with insensitive munition high explosive and a supplementary charge. On gun launch, propellant gases initiate a delay device that will ignite the rocket motor, boosting velocity at an optimal time in the trajectory to maximize range"

[LoooSeR]

2S9 Nona-S

[LoooSeR]

More from Cuba, looks like T-34-85 with M-46 130 mm cannon on top of it with side-mounted ammoracks.

[LoooSeR]

[LoooSeR]

UralVagonZavod to unveil new Phlox 120mm self-propelled howitzer

 

 

 

 

[LoooSeR]

9K57 Uragan MLRS in A-stan, 1984.

 

[Bronezhilet]

AMX PRA (Pantser Rups Artillerie, Armour; Tracked; Artillery)

[Belesarius]

Worst Korea is apparently working on Ramjet powered 155mm arty shells.

 

http://www.janes.com/article/63602/dx-korea-2016-poongsan-debuts-155-mm-ramjet-propelled-artillery-shell-concept

 

[Bronezhilet]

While it sounds cool to have a 155 mm ramjet, it's not worth it. You lose quite a lot of explosive filler and you introduce a bunch of extra variables which you have to take care of. They're also increasing the minimum range, unless they have found a way to control the burn time of the solid fuel.

[Bronezhilet]

Also Jane's being retarded again:

 

 

 

Company engineers aim to achieve a maximum range of in excess of 80 km, over twice the range of extended range projectiles with rocket-assisted flight.

Sounds cool, doesn't it?

 

Except we've reached 75 km in 2006, without the use of ramjets.

 

 

 

a muzzle velocity of over 900 m/s for significantly greater range potential over conventional charges or even rocket-assisted delivery

 

 

What's that?

 

...South Africa already reached 1000 m/s muzzle velocity!?

 

...oh.

- Worst Korea, 2016

 

 

Jane's; not knowing what the fuck we're talking about since forever.

 

 

Source for first picture: http://www.dod.mil.za/news/news2006/jul/page13.pdf

Source for second picture: http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2004armaments/DayII/SessionII/09Kruger_52_Cal_Leap_Ahead.pdf