How many british artillery operators dead and alive do you think would consider smoking a russian warship offhore amidst an act of industrial sabotage with an 155mm shell from one of these while on the move to be eternal bliss?
The fact that they can fire on the move is just so cool and what a pain in the ass for counter battery fire.
Don’t forget that they are also carefully designed with blast doors and genuinely good medium armor so that EVEN IF you manage to catch one of these off guard you still tactically have to defeat serious armor.
Oh and another point these vehicles are designed to massively reduce/eliminate blast overpressure injury to the artillery operators from repetitive exposure while firing which is also a basic human improvement on the machine that is artillery.
The gun is seperated from the crew, which is a million times better for the crew.
Its 155 mm/L52 cannon complies with NATO Joint Ballistics Memorandum of Understanding (JBMoU) requirements and can fire standard high-explosive rounds, base-bleed projectiles, extended-range ammunition and future precision-guided munitions within the limits of the approved ammunition matrix. The turret contains no crew stations. The two operators remain in the protected Boxer compartment, with one serving as driver and system operator and the other as commander and fire mission operator. The ammunition installation carries 30 fuzed projectiles and 144 modular propellant charges, equivalent to an average of 4.8 charge modules per projectile if the full load is distributed evenly, although actual charge selection varies by range and trajectory. Projectile loading, charge loading, gun laying, and fuze programming are automated.
I look over menacingly at the Ajax as it shakes violently in the corner
“please sir could I have just a few british troops?” it asks meekly
I don’t see how it’s our-
wow rude @tetris11@feddit.uk just hung up mid sentence!
