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

[LoooSeR]

   Guided missiles for Smerch, 120 km max range, can be aimed at different targets when shooting from one vehicle in single shot. Stolen from otvaga.

 

 

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[LoooSeR]

Polonez MRLS during exercises in Belarus

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[LoooSeR]

   Shturm-S moded by Luch company (Ukraine) firing test, new optics (that was developed for air vehicles, AFAIK) and different missile - RK-2P "Barrier-V" ATGM instead of Shturm/Kokon.

 

 

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[LoooSeR]

   Kornet-EM

 

   Drok SPM with supsension in collapsed position.

 

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[LoooSeR]

   Mal'va 152 mm SPG stats

 

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Max range - 24.5 km.

RoF per minute - 7

Elevation: -3...+70^o 

Horizontal traverse - +-30^o

Ammunition load - 30 shots

Crew - 5

SPG full weight - 32t

13 meters long, 2.75m wide, 3.1m height

 

   Floks/Flox 120mm SPG/SPM

 

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Max range - 8.5 km with HE-frag shell, 10km with guided shell [?], 7 km with HE mine.

RoF per minute - 8 with HE frag shell, 10 with HE mine

Elevation: -5...+80^o 

Horizontal traverse - +-35^o

Ammunition load - 60 shots

Crew - 4

[Beer]

Dana-M for Polish army

https://www.defence24.pl/mspo-2020-pierwsza-unowoczesniona-dana

[LoooSeR]

   New mine-clearing vehicle on BMP-3 chassis was spotted during Kavkaz 2020 exercises.

   Looks like it can carry even more rockets than 5, judging by numbers of rockets on left side of the launcher (from vehicle pov). It also have electronic/magnetic mine clearing system on the front, AFAIK. Also, it have something that looks like APS, but i don't see radars.

 

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[LoooSeR]

   Kavkaz-2020, Grads and TOS-1As

[Beer]

Spectacular volley of Iskander and Smerch missiles during Kavkaz-20 excercise.

 

[LoooSeR]

   TOS-2 during Kavkaz-2020

[Ramlaen]

 

[LoooSeR]

   Guided artillery/mortar shells - KM-8 Gran', KM-3 Kitolov-2M and KM-1M Krasnopol-M2

 

[Laser Shark]

Concept image of an AS9 Huntsman (K9A1 variant for Australia) with additional armour, new headlights (similar to the ones on the Redback) and an RWS:

 

 

Source: https://www.janes.com/amp/hda-shows-concept-images-of-as9-sph-and-as10-aarv-for-australian-army/ZnlJK3dHVU9mZ28xajRJVkc5dVI5VFp1cVMwPQ2

[SH_MM]

I am not entirely sure why they would adopt such add-on armor on a self-propelled gun. Specifically given that it lacks additional roof-armor to survive counter-battery fire.

 

Is it meant for peace-keeping operations?

[Laser Shark]

4 hours ago, SH_MM said:

I am not entirely sure why they would adopt such add-on armor on a self-propelled gun. Specifically given that it lacks additional roof-armor to survive counter-battery fire.

 

Is it meant for peace-keeping operations?

 

Could be that and/or the Aussies feel they need it in case their artillery units have to defend their own positions and make use of that direct-fire capability?

 

Perhaps @2805662 or @DIADES know anything about this?

 

 

[LoooSeR]

 

   NK NLOS ATGM

 

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   New NK LOS ATGM, possibly Kornet-related

 

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   NK 152/155 mm caliber SPG

 

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   NK high caliber guided MRLS (600mm)

 

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   Tracked version with 6 rockets

 

   Kumsong-3 AShM

[LoooSeR]

   NK's Iskander-like missile systems.

 

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   Tracked version

 

   And this huge missile system that have visual similarities to ATACMS.

 

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   Possibly a cruise missile launcher.

 

[2805662]

17 hours ago, Laser Shark said:

 

Could be that and/or the Aussies feel they need it in case their artillery units have to defend their own positions and make use of that direct-fire capability?

 

Perhaps @2805662 or @DIADES know anything about this?

 

 

Can’t help, sorry. Bit of a mystery. The RWS won’t be Kongsberg, though. 

[Beer]

Spectacular video of modernized Serbian MLRS Oganj.

 

[LoooSeR]

   Noticed that those ATGM carriers have what is suspected to be a laser illumination sensors (vertical tubes on the sides of "turret")

 

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   Same with this one.

 

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[Beer]

Some sort of new sights for Chinese Malyutka.

 

[LoooSeR]

Probably stuck thermal imager in it. Wrong thread, BTW, ATGMs for squishies are in infantry subforum.

[Ramlaen]

 

[Laser Shark]

Offisersbladet claims that the US Army is consdiering the K9 Thunder for their forces in South Korea. I couldn't find any other source confirming this, so it seems dubious, but this is also the same journal that revealed that Germany had decided to acquire Trophy before that was made official too...

 

Source: https://dittmagasin.no/offisersbladet/utgivelser/offisersbladet_0520_flip (page 19)