The Rheinmetall-Elbit Fully Automated 155mm Howitzer: A New Era in Artillery?

Rheinmetall and Elbit Systems successfully conducted a live fire demonstration of their automated 155mm L52 self-propelled howitzer. The aim is to provide Western militaries with a new and advanced wheeled long-range howitzer, countering the Russian superiority in terms of indirect fires. A range comparison highlights the significant challenge faced by western armies in tube artillery, with the Russian 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV surpassing 70 km while the PzH 2000, one of the most advanced western systems, falls short at just over 30 km with a boat tail munition and under 40 km with a base bleed round. The demonstrated, completely robotic howitzer represents a significant step forward in bridging this artillery range gap.

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[gustavmeyrink_.]

0:40 The stated range for the that Russian thing is using rocket assisted projectiles.
If you use RAPs in the PzH2000 the range is the same.

[duke]

The Koalitsiya's firing range is only achieved with rocket-propelled ammunition. With the “Vulcano” ammunition, which is also rocket-propelled, the PzH2000 can shoot approx. 80 km away. So there is no advantage on the Russian side here. And in terms of precision, the Koalitsiya first has to prove that it can achieve similarly good results as the PzH2000. By the way, it is somewhat embarrassing for Russian technology that it can only come up with a similar system 30 years after the development of the PzH2000. The successor to the PzH2000 will be the wheeled howitzer RCH155, which can also fire at the target while driving.

[emmanuelyorac]

Philippines should buy 48 pieces for the army, marines for coastal defense.

[hisredrighthand]

Maybe worth mentioning:
+ Rheinmetall's new propellant P6 (+10-20% range)
+ New generation of Assegai V-LAP rounds: a RAP may offer great range, but the rocket motor eats up half the space, so whatever arrives is not only terribly imprecise, it has a fraction of the destructive power of a normal artillery round (same goes for sub-calibre Vulcano rounds). V-LAP combines base-bleed and a mini-rocket-motor for different phases of the trajectory - range used to be 10+ km on top of base-bleed.
- New Assegai V-LAP adds 20-25km range under ideal conditions.

Rheinmetall Offer:
First version: PzH2000 gun, resilient Israeli automated loader, all proven technology. P6 + new V-LAP: *ranges up to 64km*

First upgrade:
L/52A1: New shutter mechanism, increased volume pressure chamber: P6 can really shine, *ranges up to 70km*

Final Upgrade:
L/60 barrel and enlarged pressure chamber (still under development) allows for use of larger amounts of P6 (which is a solid that is screwed into the bottom of the projectile) to accelerate modified V-LAP rounds (extra-hard coating to withstand the pressure, under development) to significantly higher muzzle velocities, resulting in a max. *range of 83km*

[petter]

Buy an Archer, it is combat proven and works great 👍🏻

[Hukkinen]

Swedich Archer works already. The military industry needs to focus on cheaply scalable and effective systems!

[gustavmeyrink_.]

If I had to pick this or the RCH155 I'd pick RCH155 every time.

[ashtonrobbins]

The M1299 was an American prototype 155 mm self-propelled howitzer developed by BAE Systems beginning in 2019 under the Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) program. It was based on the M109A7 howitzer and was primarily designed for the purpose of improving the M109's effective range. The program was canceled in 2024.
In December 2022, the XM907E2 cannon fired an XM1155 sub-caliber projectile out to 110 km (68 mi).

[klausberfelde-jeye]

I don´t buy the 70km of the 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV with normal ammo. And what gab should the presented System fill, having the same barrel length as RCH 155 / PzH 2000? in comparrison to the RCH 155, the RCH 155 has a big advantage. It can shoot while driving. That´s something the Elbit System can´t do... so you better compare it with an Archer system.

[HayMaker-tvdm]

Europe and Israel should go for a future rocket artillery system with various calibres and multi warheads, rockets from 110mm to 254mm and a extended range rocket in the 324mm with 300km and a seperate TBM tactical ballistic missile with a 800km range and a maximum of 2800kg with supersonic reentry speed and a 650 or 700kg warhead to a 1000kg with diferent options and Galileo GPNS capable and INS. That was what is needed and a heavier helicopter for high endurance ground attack capability and finnaly a strategic bomber with supersonic speed with a 20 ton capacity and a 8000km range loaded, thats what Europe with Israel should be doing and corporating on big projects for the present and future for the defense of booth, great howitzer! Congratulations

[klausberfelde-jeye]

Rheinmetall is still producing 100km ammo for Ukraine. And we still have systems like PzH2000, RCH155, ...that can fire this ammo! There is no need to guess that Russia has more advanced artillery systems. This system my be a step ahead for ELBIT but compared with RCH155 it's a step backwards.

[HayMaker-tvdm]

This guy doesnt now what is talking the russians have a range of 70 km please give me a break even rocket assisted they dont have this range just propaganda, but the PZH already shoot targets at 67km confirmed. The russians say alot of bullshit, but this system is just enormous to big to deploy and to transport. Ukraine should open their eyes in Europe but still no investments, no pragmatism and a piece like that you cannot hide you better have a great range, but they should focus in Europe in a 127mm field howitzer to compete with Rússia D30 and other Russians weapons because i saw 155mm but no 76mm or 88mm and the 105 is great but we need something with some punch and the 127mm already have a logistics for amunnition and barrel manufecture and is a great size to weight and ranging in the 30km is a great adition to NATO arsenals that lacks a medium howitzer and a rapid light howitzer in the 76" to 88" mm with rapid fire and good fire power

[Person_X]

Die russische Howitzer schießt 70km Ziel vorbei 😂

[VelimirAndan]

This howitzer almost have simulare shape and other insignia like Serbian Nora/M21 that Americans testing whole year at Arizona. Beside Nora, they chose Archer, Izraely Atmos and some kind of garage made American howitzer. They wanted to chose and "buy" best howitzer that is capebilitas same at +50° and - 30°. How many shels each could fire unit barell must be replace and loot of other testing. At the end they didn't chose any of those but they just copy everything that was best in Nora howitzer and Archer howitzer, so they finally made their howitzer. We know that from start but if Americans confirmed that our howitzer is one of best in the world that is good marketing for next buyer whitout any money that we probubly must give to make video of Nora at diferent parts of world. IF YOU BETTER LOOK AT THEM IT IS UNBULIVELY SIMULARE SOLUTION OF THOSE TWO HOWITZERS

[Sardor-lf]

Salomaleykum iltimos taglavhani o'zbekcha qilib bering ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤

[yeahbutytho]

Don't let Hungary have them. Can't trust them

[Роман-шжу]

Коалиция св выстрелила на полигоне севера Москвы на 96 км и поразила цель, отклонение составило 7, 5 метра. Наверное до вас не доносят всю информацию того, чего добивается Россия... Ну что же, наблюдайте на "известном" полигоне 404 😅😅😅

[kanal]

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[muratoncu]

Birleşik Arap emirlikleri 109 kilometre menzilli obüs mermisi yaptı. Alman şirketi bu konuda çok geride....

[ashtonrobbins]

OMG, A PzH 2000 L52 gun fired a shell 67 km at the Alkantpan test range in South Africa on 6 November 2019. G- 6 Rhino from Denel of South Africa, first produced in 1989. Has achieved 76, 280 m M9703 Practice Inert V-LAP[18].Rate of fire: 4 round/min, 2 round/min sustained.
Ammunition: 155 mm ERFB. 47 rounds, 50 charges, 64 primers and fuzes
Accuracy: 0.1% of range in azimuth, 0.48% of range in range
In 2012 four rounds of M982 Excalibur precision guided munitions were fired to a range of 38 km, all landing within 5 m of the target.[19]

Never really received any orders because it was just too good and from South Africa, If any International Western Partner had decided to develop the SPH, well imagine the possibilities. Big up to to South Africa to siding with Russia and for trying to defend the Palestinian people of Gaza. Malligning South Africa Aint payback a bitch....