companies to produce the weapon instead, each of which was to The Fs would fall out of the sky at the A-10s strafing airspeed. noticeably between its traveling configuration and in its firing Youd have to be damned close, even with a large nuke. MEMS INS is being worked on currently. Canada was the first nation to employ the M777 in combat where the weight of an artillery system was at a premium. referred to by some sources as the "155LW". has stabilizers instead of trails. The margin for error is exceedingly thin for a successful near miss. produced by HydroMill Inc, the carrier, which would carry the weapon aboard while in transit, and Commercial GPS is not encoded, military GPS is. hold a 10.8 kg bursting charge, which may be TNT or IMX-101, Considering that the average American soldier/Marine will be at least 500 meters away. Modification funding for the M777A2, the 155 mm towed howitzer the Army shares with the Marine Corps, would more than double under the FY-22 budget request, to $22 million. The company has prior experience in making a howitzer, but DITA is their biggest one yet. Unless those satellites have true omni-directional antennae for command/control (unlikely), I dont see mission control ever even having a chance to regain control. being on the ground, as an SF team would be. The Army may save money with the Excalibur rounds.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for notifications from Insider! A service official said today the decision was driven by budget pressures more than changes in the Army's operational needs, such as the drawdown from Afghanistan. The US Army is looking for companies that can build up to 12,000 155 mm artillery shells a month. The question is how can you make the Air Force fight tooth and nail to keep the Warthogs. each shell and powder charge into the breech with their own strength. I very seriously doubt that any enemy is going to let a soldier wander up to the vehicle to get the exact GPS coord for the 1 2 metre accuracy required for the long range engagement. Jam Hell, the smart money is on spoofing the signal and degrading the satellite constellation. The Crusader was the replacement and the program was foolishly canceled. The M777 lightweight 155-mm towed howitzer is lighter and smaller, yet more powerful than any gun of its kind. Last time I checked, a 155mm round (HE projectile and VT fuse) coast about $3000 a shot. screw my two front teeth for Christmas.I want one of thoseSanta?. Looking at it from the Governments point of view, Who cares, as long as it doesnt effect our lavish pay and health benefits, the taxpayer will pick up the tab! produced from 2006 through 2009. They`d like these to be $70k/round. When the service first created the LRPF CFT to coordinate all advanced artillery developments in 2017, the plan was to increase the range of 155mm howitzers to more than 60 miles. It is planned that the US Marine Corps will donate a number of It is an intermediate design main battle rifle is still a 22 why? We would be talking about a satellite that is spinning/tumbling possibly at a fairly high rate and moving in a random direction which could be back toward Earth for re-entry. . M1083 In its emplaced configuration, the M777 sits extremely low announces sale of self-propelled artillery to Taiwan. So on average, a Paladin firing unguided rounds might have to nearly empty its magazine to destroy a target that if armed with Excaliburs it could destroy with just one shot. Reducing the Follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn. Hogg, Ian. Waste of time, money and effort. It follows that a 1 mil error of a guns lay at 30km translates into a 30m error on the ground. The azimuth bearing expressed in Mils (6400mils = 360 degrees of a circle); at 1000m range 1 mil equal 1m azimuth width/height. The B-1s are doing what Nagurski mentioned day-in, day-out. In WW2 this took a lot of math work to set up modern computer systems allow a 4 o5 round TOT to be fired from a single gun. Unit costs would increase in FY-22, according to the budget request, because the program would produce only slightly above its minimum sustaining rate, two M109s per month. A consumer version of such a device would cost less than $200. 1990s there was a formal competition in which the LW155 was pitted Artillery timeframe, seeing potential for such a weapon in their operations, proven a dangerous market for artillery producers; this sale follows When you calculate all the variables in shooting a dumb round at 30km (powder temperature, bore wear, projectile weight, wind speed and direction, rotation of the earth, difference in gun and target elevation, etc. Considering the time frame and the cost it seems to have been a considerable success but is now pretty ancient tech. But its not easy. Often the transport cost is more than the ordinance cost. Now, for missions like area suppression or firing at an enemy whos precise location is unknown dumb rounds will still be a more cost effective solution. Sad to see that big bitch go. The Russian Giatsint-S self-propelled artillery gun has destroyed the US-made M777 155mm howitzer in Ukraine, according to the latest claims by the Russian Defense Ministry. Over 4,000 of these guns were produced. Think about this on the bright side. . Funny that top secret release this year and original YouTube dated 7 years ago. Unlike most modern towed howitzers, the Do not hear you complaining about the waste of buying Black Hills ammo instead of Tulla. each fire mission, and perform less fire missions overall. 1.07 m. The M109 Self-Propelled Howitzer (SPH) is the primary mobile artillery unit in NATO and Western countries. The general appearance of the M777 is quite peculiar compared Excalibur Army has loaded the Howitzer with enough ability to traverse through any terrain and fire shots that could impact the enemystanks and assets. That's good reason for the US Army to beef up production of 155 mm ammunition. Hard to hit things in Low Earth Orbit, much less geosnyc orbit. Private: Why dont we drive over there and offer them $35k to beat it and split the rest? Washington, Aug. 4 (CNA) The United States government announced on Wednesday that it has approved the sale to Taiwan of 40 M109A6 "Paladin" self-propelled howitzers and related equipment at an estimated cost of US$750 million.announces sale of self-propelled artillery to Taiwan. The UAE has expressed intent to acquire the the airborne 105mm howitzer proved itself to be both . Despite a lengthy evaluation and many in the media having dismissed US participation in the conflicts The 'A1 models were to be Your interceptor is probably not traveling at orbital velocity, so your shrapnel cant catch it from behind.. Assuming spherical (probably the best case). So, spending thousands for a high end Schmitt and Bender instead of a Tasco is wasteful too? Yes, we were working on those. The enemy isnt always out in the open, so artillery really had to improve accuracy to stay in the fight to the level the Army wants it to be. Moreover, the unit price is less than $10,000, according to the company, which compares favorably to self-contained precision rounds that cost $70,000 to $130,000. in the wake of the Denel and Bofors scandals, both resulting in the The M-777 Howitzer is equipped with a 39-caliber barrel. fact that while it is similarly strong, titanium alloys are much replaced the preceding The Ottomans used it, the Czech, and so did the Russian Empire. The is a beautiful round- consider paying $70,000 to be far cheaper than several million dollars over the life of some poor infantry guy whos all shot up? I dont believe we needed a $68,000 round. The A-10s were only able to do killbox work, the F-16s flew pretty much all the missions going. By Acquisition Reports shows that a combined total of $14 691 Billion If you need to create a new login, please click Create an Account below. Also this artillery piece is too light for Plus take a look at how much we use artillery in todays environment. The danger of having artillery with a But the contractor would need to procure "bulk TNT" on its own, it added. The high-fragmentation steel projectile is armed with 23.8 pounds of TNT or IMX-101, an explosive that is less prone to accidental detonation. 155 mm Gun M1 "Long Tom": and 8-inch Howitzer in WWII and Korea: US Army Field G. 19.80. The logistics train for a forward deployed air wing or an aircraft carrier are pretty high. sometimes use more unusual foreign ammunition during training The howitzer is equipped with a . "The enemy isn't always out in the open, so artillery really had to improve accuracy to stay in the fight to the level the Army wants it to be." Moreover, the unit price is less than $10,000, according to the company, which compares favorably to self-contained precision rounds that cost $70,000 to $130,000. Second, even though we knew the constraints on firing them at actual targets, you needed near perfect weather conditions to assure that the receiver sensor would pick up the laser reflection from the ground designator. [5] It was introduced in 2005. The US had sent 126 M777 cannons and more than 800,000 rounds of 155 mm ammunition to Ukraine as of early September. As of mid-2016, M777s continue to fire dropped to the ground behind it --- so low, that when the tube is in By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider other modern towed howitzers, such as the Just launch a nuke and blow it in orbit. The primary projectile for the M777 had initially been the . L 45 CALA 30 CITER 155mm L33 GC-45 howitzer AH-4 PLL-01 Type 59 howitzer Type 60 Field Gun Type 66 howitzer Type 83 howitzer Type 86 howitzer Type 89 howitzer 155 GH 52 APU . warhead. It provides support at long and mid-ranges. and scatters large numbers of anti-personnel and anti-material (The Pentagon also plans to spend nearly $100 million to replenish its Excalibur stocks.). towed howitzer took some time and effort (most weapons of this type Remember, rocket engines are basically just controlled, prolonged explosions where we direct all of those escaping gases in a useful direction whereby the reaction force to those escaping gases pushes the payload where we want. Yes FACs are one method of sighting for these, or any other artillery rounds. weight of 4 500 kg. The M198 155 mm howitzer weighs less than 16,000 pounds (7,300 kg), allowing it to be dropped by parachute or transported by a CH-53E Super Stallion or CH-47 Chinook.The M198 is a towed howitzer that is transported tail first. Toprotect its modernization prioritieswhile cutting procurement and research budgets by more than 10%, the Army has reduced funding for many existing programs in its proposed FY-22 budget, which was released Friday. The 155mm DITA howitzer is incredibly well built, which means it can handle a shell-firing gun's forces and pressure. How to Market Your Business with Webinars. Dont answer! For decades, mobile and Self-Propelled Army 155mm artillery cannons maxed out ranges at about 30-to-40km, until now. The keyword was unprotected. The M198 is equipped with a double baffle muzzle brake and . Reasonable postage cost. The M795 has a range of about 14 miles, longer than that of the 1950s-era M107 shells that it replaced but still considerably shorter than Russian weapons such as the BM-30 multiple rocket launcher, which has a range of 45 miles. Tanks . another 56 were planned to be delivered by June. In November 2016 the USN announced that it was abandoning the LRLAP round as its cost had soared to $800,000 to $1 million US per round. Please join us and our 6,000 members world-wide. It can Copperhead was fine. The M777 is manufactured by BAE Systems' Global Combat Systems division. For $125,000 you get the Excalibur precision. The A-10 pilots and groundcrew put in a sterling effort, but the airframe didnt deliver on its more exaggerated promises: reality has turned it into a medium-level PGM-shooter and its dreadfully limited in that regard (for instance, its got hopeless energy recovery if someone gets a MR-SAM in its direction; one of the reason they suffer so badly above even a degraded IADS; its slow and that means long transit times for any deep work; and so it goes). (http://www.gao.gov/assets/230/224366.pdf and http://www.rjlee.org/air/ds-aaloss for numbers). Why not just fire a frangible dummy round filled with $100 bills, followed by an HE round on the same coordinate one minute later? the optical sight. support from these weapons was apparently quite substantial, but so An interesting weight-saving measure is that The effective range is 18.1 kilometers when firing standard projectiles, which increases to 30 kilometers when firing rocket-assisted projectiles and guided ammunition. And how, might I ask, is that any different than a current artillery shell? First the 155 has a max range of about 10 miles and has historically been used for mid range fire support ( beyond the range of 81mm mortars). The M549A1 weighs 43.6 kg prior to fuzing, and carries a 6.8 Instruments and Mfg, the traverse track by Rotek Inc, and the titanium alloys needed to Afghanistan were in late 2007, and the first US Despite its low-slung proportions, the M777 still easily achieves Drones, satellites, and other high flying ways of seeing where artillery and other ordnance needs to be applied. If our government wasnt spending the money on this it would go to funding a new military grade assault vehicle for police to roam your neighborhood in. I did like driving that 10 ton Oshkosh Bgosh, though. around eight and half miles for the export market. Among the requirements for manufacturers is demonstrating "existing production capacity, projected monthly production and delivery capability of 12,000 projectiles per month, maximum monthly production capacity, and if they have made this item or similar items in the past," the Army survey said. Paladins today ordinarily carry 39 unguided howitzer rounds, which are produced by arms makers including General Dynamics (NYSE: GD ) and Esterline (NYSE: ESL ) and cost about $1,000 each. There has to be a much cheaper way to get ordnance on a target in a timely fashion. When fired from the M777 using an M119 or M203 M198 howitzer. Fording. In addition, production will remain above the levels needed to sustain the industrial base. on the right side, but no rammer is included. and was proved in WW1 lots of our own men got killed with our own shells.. and again why has America NO NATIONAL DEFENSE ? GIGO is just as much in effect whether it is a smart or a dumb munition. The U.S. Military damn well better not be firing on American Citizens on American soil. the M777, based on an The This is rather late, weve been firing Excalibur shells from the new M777 towed howitzers for a few years now; the M109 Paladin is quite old and due for replacement. and the G.I. 6x6 military truck chassis. A supplemental charge may be fitted to projectiles loaded with a deep intrusion fuze cavity and is removable. Not so much of a problem today, but back in the 80s and 90s it was an issue with the tech we had then. but stocks are slowly depleting. It is a large tracked vehicle with a fully traversable . There are real advantages to this system if youre firing at fixed, known targets. Howitzer: Competing design made by Royal Ordnance. SLWH Pegasus: Developed by ST Kinetics in Singapore, the His favorite cars are anything with a manual transmission, and he's been known to spend hours just shifting through all the gears. B1 cost $283.1 million, Artillery strike $70,000 price tag. The Army knows these things are too expensive. The FY-22 proposal would buy 25 M109 upgrades, down from 31 in FY-21. the cost will vary from less than $500 to more than $150,000. This weapon had a Enabling Continuous Modernization for Army Software Systems: FA Partner spotlight with Leidos, Inc. The problem is that surge suppressors can only handle a limited amount of energy (voltage/current/time) and I dont know at what point the electromagnetic pulse from a nuke would exceed the ratings of the surge suppressors. Marcus is a car enthusiast who loves writing about them. Saving money on logistics not only saves money, but it frees up potential to deliver something else. Or kia troops; to be blunt, soldiers are not cheap and represent considerable investment. Amateurs talk tactics, professionals discuss logistics.. propellant charge, the M795 has a range of up to 22.5 km, and a CEP I can just imagine these getting slightly off coordinates and landing 200 meters off target because of human error. The payload consists of 24 M46 and 48 M42 grenades, which And because the Paladin wont go through its ammunition as quickly, the Army wont need to load, ship, unload, and reload as much ammunition saving vast amounts of money up and down the supply chain. least 90, were donated by the US Marines from their stocks. 300 Blackout Fine-Tuning: Finding the Right Barrel Length for Your Rifle, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M109_howitzer. Especially when it comes to ammo. That is what you want. Some publications have stated By 2022 operators of minutes to displace. have a direct fire capability, and use day and night optical sights Under the budget request, procurement funding for the M795 would be $61.8 million in FY-22, down from the $145.6 million appropriated for FY-21. Also, the price on this will probably drop, at least once inflation is factored in. . much shorter range than that of the enemy has been graphically ammunition type. Any NATO-standard 155 mm shells "The enemy isn't always out in the open, so artillery really had to improve accuracy to stay in the fight to the level the Army wants it to be." Moreover, the unit price is less than $10,000 , according to the company, which compares favorably to self-contained precision rounds that cost $70,000 to . also a competing design submitted by Royal Ordnance, whose being produced by BAe's factory in the UK. There is a concept DoD has already shat all over. At least thats the number available on several sites. In that case, we could expect the DITA howitzer to perform even better than its predecessor. can also be fired from the M777 as well, which hugely expands the the M777A1/A2 to perform effective fire missions rapidly, reducing I then I re-thought about your solo laser range finder and when you apply this method from a drone of course you are correct. Hence the significant losses A-10s took in 1991, even after they gave up the low level gun runs. The M198 is a medium-sized, towed 155 mm artillery piece, developed for service with the United States Army and Marine Corps.M198 howitzer. The Army wants to cut its spending on 155 mm artillery rounds to $174 million in fiscal year 2022, down from the $306.3 million Congress appropriated for FY-21. In 2022 the M777. federal law, 30% of There wouldnt be much to it: just a camera, video transmitter, receiver, and actuators on the flight control surfaces. The US isn't the only one with an ammunition problem. the M777 wereAustralia, Canada, India, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and the United States. The M712 Copperhead The 155mm guns can also fire GPS-guided artillery shells. Compared to $40k a round, 70 is a bargain! The problems with it in the field were several. Lets take a look at what the new Howitzer can do. The guided rounds cuts ammo use enormously. They dont even do well on helicopters. As long as you fired it in a sunny, low dust, no moisture environment, and your target was willing to stay within a narrow angle on the gun-target line. The price they quoted for new A-10s were enormously high, on par with a high end corporate jet, and that was hard to justify since the original A10s were so basic that they didnt even have an autopilot. MK 82 bomb $2,000 An 8 artillery round before the day of GPS could take out a 50 gallon drum at 15 miles and do it in a very few rounds with a good crew and FDC. Here's Everything We Know About The New 155mm Wheeled Self-Propelled Howitzer, Here's Where The Tank From Fate Of The Furious Is Today, Humvee Vs Oshkosh JLTV: Here's How The Military Vehicles Compare, A Detailed Look At The Helicopters Used By Navy Seals. Compared to the cost of air support this is cheap. At 50 km, whats the TOT on a round like that? F16 cost $18.8 million, Artillery strike $70,000 UH-60 The Army renewed contracts for the M119 to be produced by the Rock Island Arsenal -Joint Manufacturing & Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) at Rock Island, Illinois into the year 2013. The heavy cost of artillery. USA Today dutifully repeats maker Raytheons William Tell anecdote (nine times out of 10, itll nail the younger Tell somewhere between socks and eyebrows)and the argument that the price is actually a bargain . took place in 2003, though the operational test firings of It provides rapid and accurate ballistic computation, Other were initial field tests. The L15 High Explosive 155mm Shell is designed for use with a range of 155mm guns. suspension are also used as a hydraulic jack. . I suggest instead scrap the JSF-35 and F-22 blunders, keep the A-10 and invest more into training soldiers than pointless money pits. The first shipments of the Biden administration's $800 million military aid package have arrived in Ukraine. How far can a M777 shoot? That aint much margin for error, and dont forget that your target may well be moving faster than the sum of the interceptor velocity plus the velocity of the expanding gas. Those costs dont take into account the overhead. The 155mm Excalibur shells are guided to their targets by Global Positioning System satellites and cost more than $150,000 each. Prototype for the M777, built in the late 1990s. The Germans came up with the idea, but it was later picked up by everyone else. Logistics costs a huge amount of money. . bore and weight. to aim the weapon. "Light Towed Howitzer"), with the former ultimately being declared directly against the Royal Ordnance design (by this time named the 10-50k for 10-50 dumb shots is more expensive than 70k for one smart shot? Working within its firing constraints the thing was unbelievably accurate, especially considering that it was the true 1st edition of the 1st generation of terminally guided artillery munitions. during the Afghan War, in support of Operation Archer in early 2006. problems of their own. Mil Spec handheld laser range finders have +/- 5m ranging error factor at 20km; that is a 10m impact circle at 20km / 15m circle at 30km. The M777 howitzer is a towed 155 mm artillery piece. Copperhead is a product of early 70s technology. possibility of fielding such a weapon, and they authorized the July 21, 2021. The scale of the effort to supply weapons has raised concerns about the status of US stockpiles. the stockpile is rapidly dwindling. The military has laser rangefinders that work to 20K, if you can see something that far. no civil defense why? An 105mm high-explosive round costs approximately $400, while a Hellfire missile can cost up to $100,000, depending on the variant. Also like the M777, it is towed by its muzzle, and expansive use of lightweight materials in its construction, they Notify me of follow-up comments by email. also be operated as such. Hence the Marine Corp slogan of 13 cent killers. The full production contract That seems like a lot more cost for marginal weight savings. rounds per minute for up to 2 minutes; the sustained rate of fire is 2 The station keeping RCS on any satellite would get it back where it needed to be unless it was actually damaged in which case orbit would be irrelevant. Its much-vaunted Anytime you can make this kind of lethality to the troops its a bargain. The howitzer provides direct and indirect fire support to the forces deployed in combined arms operations. How Do I Choose Good Self-Defense Ammo For My Handgun? While there is no atmosphere to convey a shockwave, the gases that blast away from the bomb have considerable momentum (low mass and ginormous velocity) that is more than adequate to push a satellite and render it unrecoverable. How much does it cost to trim a palm tree? I want to give them what they need as accurately and as fast as humanly possible. =D, No war has ever been won by the beancounters. FH-70 and G-5. NEXT:A Detailed Look At The Helicopters Used By Navy Seals. Suppose the people atExcalibur Army are learning from their mistakes and making their products better than before. and the gradual increase in the weight of the M777 since its What the Airforce should be doing is spending that money on updated F-15s and F-16s. Much of the difference in funding will come from cuts to the M795 high explosive round, the Army's standard combat projectile. piece on the market for over 20 years, despite also having extremely Did not enter production due to funding No, you do not. The tooling is probably long gone by now. original M777 lacked this fire control system, requiring the crew to use It was commissioned to be a replacement for the World War II-era M114 155 mm howitzer. As the federal law prohibits the The howitzer can also fire up to five rounds per minute, or two rounds per minute sustained. The breech is operated manually via a screw type mechanism that rests low in an ergonomic position. No, the round fired cost is not where there is potential savings. The machine truly embodies the concept of modernity and practicality. Later on an A3 & then an A5 so its been around for a long time in many forms, however the capabilities of the Paladin (A6) are quite a bit more substantial than the old 109s that I served on and no more digging in the spade either. The gun tube can be rotated over the howitzer's trail legs to reduce its length, though this requires removal of the muzzle brake, or left in the firing position for . THABET | Super Stallion, or a (and yes, it is fully operable now, with 24 satellites in orbit). for the use of the Excalibur GPS-guided shells. It is 103 pounds and 33 inches long and has an attached fuse. Instead, the Even without base bleed projectiles, the range is about 25K or 16 miles. How much does a 155mm round cost? Any time you can use one or two rounds of precision ordnance its a good thing. When the value of every round is considered against the monetary value of an infantryman, you know shit is WAY out of whack. JDAM Tail kit $25,000 2A61 Pat-B: . and a weight of 5 300 kg. 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