Artillery sales

Below is an interesting sales brief by General Dynamics on a 105mm artillery system they are trying to sell.

With the emphasis on sales and sales language. It takes on the 155mm stating superior this and that.

A few fine points:

-It only states that it is superior in lethal ability by fragmentation. If you had a high-frag round for the 155mm how would it compare?

-Left out is the increased blast force that a 155mm offers as an advantage. The sales brief states that its' 105mm offers less collateral damage but I doubt that a commander ordering an artillery fire mission...a non-precision artillery mission with a high CEP is looking for "low collateral". For example, a 155mm Excalibur offers precision and if the military needs it, a scalable warhead effect. Not unlike a BLU-126/B.

For the most part, non-precision medium and heavy artillery is brought out to help crush an enemy's resistance, not play nice. Lethality? Give them some white phosphorus rounds too!

-GD shows the highly defective Stryker which kills credibility. They also have the brass to show it rolling out of a C-130 when this was already proven as a gimmick. Yeah you can move a Stryker a small handful of miles in a C-130...when one-time waivers are granted against flight safety.

With that, the weapon does look interesting. Weight, mobility, range (tuned rounds/charges to long barrel) and if you can have an auto-loading system well that is nice too. I know I could ram all of 4 155mm rounds in the extreme heat and then call it a day. Then again, I'm not artillery material. But it is still a lot of hard work any way you cut it.

If America ever gets out of its' $17T debt, maybe we can have a 105mm system like this.

Or not.

H/T- SR
















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