Artillery and rocket launchers except Chinese

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The M777 news is pretty big. It will make India the number two user behind the US. Canada has 37. Saudi Arabia has 36, and Australia has 35 of them.

The US Military has over 1,000 of them.

Odds are, that as the Indians produce them and like them...they will end up building many more. I would not be surprised to see the Indians build in the neighborhood of 300 of them before all is said and done.

The M777 is a great weapon. It will shoot the standard 155mm shells, but also shoots the ER munition, the M982 Excalibur round. This round is a precision guided munition with a range than can be 25 miles or more.

In fact, the first time the US used the M982 Excalibur round in combat with the M777 was in June 2012. They dropped those babies on insurgents in Afghanistan in Helmud Province, over 22 miles away (336 kilometers). It was Golf Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, who are permanently based at Camp Pendleton, CA. and were deployed to Aghanistan at the time, who did the shooting. Those shots stand to this day as the longest M777 on-target combat shots to date.

Happen to see this today, though I'd share. This thing is a beast. Retro German engineering at it's finest.
Firing the 80 cm Railway Gun ‘Schwerer Gustav’

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The integrated crane is a nice touch.

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They probably liked that feature from their FH77. see this amusing demonstration.

Mortars the unsung Artillery and 60mm are the most often forgotten.
The Standard US issue 60mm is the M224 or the newer M224A1
M224 however weights 41 pounds. A1 drops the weight to 38 pounds So this thing at 12 pounds is a feather weight.. Not the lightest The Italian Hirtenberger M6C-210 is 11 pounds but 11 or 12 pounds for a infantry weapon not bad.

I always love these news on infantry weapon system. Lightweight and deadly. This is like the Carl Gustav where they have reduced the weight and added ballistic computer like the PF-98

well There were once upon a time even lighter mortars the 50mm Type 89 and Type 10 used by the Imperial Japanese Armed forces were down to 10 pounds and 5 pounds, dubbed the Knee Mortar because of the way of it was carried, not the way it was used. American forces that got a hold of a few early on heard "Knee" And Mortar form the translation and ended up needing a medic. any way smaller mortars tend to have shorter ranges Knee mortars fired just short of 700 meters. even lighter was the Soviet spade Mortar it fired a 37mm shell out to 250 meters from a 3 pound tube. Iran had some thing like it in the Iran Iraq war I think the 37mm Marsh Mortar? Anyway they probably replaced it with a M203 or GP25 clone

the Hirtenberger M6C-210 is probably comparable to the Imortar so a effective range of about 1600 meters, for comparison the M224 can reach longer over twice that at about 3490 meters. so heavy weight does have a advantage.
The next step up is the 81mm mortar for the US that is the M252 with a new version the A1 being into ed at 79 pounds vs the current M252 at 91 pounds when you start dealing with 81mm or better it's pretty much towed or vehicle transported by specialist mortar crews but the up swing is the range over 5500 meters then comes the
107mm and 120mm at which point it's towed mounted or vehicle carried. and it's ranging out to 7000+ meters

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An advanced version of the indigenously developed Pinaka Mark-II rocket was successfully test-fired today from Army's Chandan firing range near Pokhran using a multi-barrel launcher.

"Pinaka Mark-II trials were successfully tested in Pokhran field firing range near Indo-Pak border. Target was successfully hit in Keru area which was situated 55 km from the firing point," said the Defence sources.

Jointly developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation and the Indian Army, this multi-barrel rocket launcher has high operational mobility, flexibility and accuracy as the major characteristics, which give the weapon an edge in modern artillery warfare for the Indian Armed Forces.

According to the sources "the ongoing developmental trials at Pokhran range in western Rajasthan by Army and scientists of DRDO was to test the advance stage of development of Pinaka Mark-II weapon system with upgraded version of software".

The development and trials will continue and the rocket is expected to enter service any time now, they said.

Pinaka-I has already been inducted into the Army and was also put into field testing for assessing its capability during the Kargil war. Its quick reaction time and high rate of fire gives an edge to the Army during low-intensity warlike situation.

The system is capable to incorporate several types of warheads.

"Pinaka Mark-II rocket with a range of more than 60-km is capable of acting as a force-multiplier and was developed to supplement artillery guns and is currently passing through a phase of testing," said the Defence sources.

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Koalitsiya-SV
Also shown off on the 9 May parade was the 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV (Coalition-SV) self-propelled artillery (SPA) system, which will replace the 2S19 MSTA-S SPA in Russian Ground Forces service

This is understood to feature a new 152 mm ordnance utilising a modular charge system. This main gun features notably different muzzle brake and recoil dampeners to the earlier SPA. An RCT armed with a 12.7 mm MG is mounted on the roof of the turret. There are two bundles of 902B Tucha smoke grenade launchers mounted on either side of the cabin and no other APS effectors, although four warning receivers are located on the SPA's turret. The main turret, understood to be unmanned akin to the T-14's turret, is significantly longer than the 2S19's

Although Koalitsiya-SV was slated to be based on the Armata universal chassis, the pre-production vehicles appear based on a modified T-72/90 chassis. The general layout and roadwheels appears to be identical to those on the T-72/90 chassis, although the front of the chassis has been heavily modified to create positions for the commander and gunner on either side of the driver. Unlike on Armata, where the driver is located on the right side of the vehicle, the driver on Koalitsiya is located in the centre of the vehicle (as seen in the T-72/90 and 2S19).


According to Georgy Zakamennih, chief director of TsNII Burevestnik, the developer of the 2S35, Coalition-SV has a maximum range of 70 km when firing advanced shells. He added that its ammunition load is larger than Western analogues. There is a unified command-and-control panel on which all the actions are displayed. The system's pneumatic loader is billed as increasing Coalition-SV's rate of fire. 2S35 can automatically choose the appropriate type of shell and fire it. Coalition-SV is therefore not a classic self-propelled gun but an innovative robotised complex, autonomous to a high extent, he said.



2S19 have a 152 mm/47 caliber range max 30 km.

a bit of history

this painting i am told hangs in NASA

Mysore rockets, from the Anglo-Mysore wars


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During the , rockets were again used on several occasions. One of these involved , later famous as the First . Wellesley was defeated by Tipu's Diwan, Purnaiya, at the . Quoting Forrest,

At this point (near the village of

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, Figure 5) there was a large tope, or grove, which gave shelter to Tipu's rocketmen and had obviously to be cleaned out before the siege could be pressed closer to Srirangapattana island. The commander chosen for this operation was Col. Wellesley, but advancing towards the tope after dark on the 5 April 1799, he was set upon with rockets and musket-fires, lost his way and, as Beatson politely puts it, had to "postpone the attack" until a more favourable opportunity should offer.

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The following day, Wellesley launched a fresh attack with a larger force, and took the whole position without losing a single man. On 22 April 1799, twelve days before the main battle, rocketeers worked their way around to the rear of the British encampment, then 'threw a great number of rockets at the same instant' to signal the beginning of an assault by 6,000 Indian infantry and a corps of Frenchmen, all directed by Mir Golam Hussain and Mohomed Hulleen Mir Mirans. The rockets had a range of about 1,000 yards. Some burst in the air like shells. Others, called ground rockets, would rise again on striking the ground and bound along in a serpentine motion until their force was spent.

According to one British observer, a young English officer named Bayly:

"So pestered were we with the rocket boys that there was no moving without danger from the destructive missiles ...".

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He continued:

The rockets and musketry from 20,000 of the enemy were incessant. No hail could be thicker. Every illumination of blue lights was accompanied by a shower of rockets, some of which entered the head of the column, passing through to the rear, causing death, wounds, and dreadful lacerations from the long bamboos of twenty or thirty feet, which are invariably attached to them.

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British adoption of the technology

After the fall of Srirangapattana, 600 launchers, 700 serviceable rockets and 9,000 empty rockets were found. Some of the rockets had pierced cylinders, to allow them to act like incendiaries, while some had iron points or steel blades bound to the bamboo. By attaching these blades to rockets they became very unstable towards the end of their flight causing the blades to spin around like flying scythes, cutting down all in their path.

These experiences eventually led the

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to start a military rocket research and development program in 1801, based on the Mysorean technology. Several rocket cases were collected from Mysore and sent to Britain for analysis. Their first demonstration of

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came in 1805 and was followed by publication of A Concise Account of the Origin and Progress of the Rocket System in 1807 by

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,

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son of the arsenal's commandant.

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were systematically used by the British during the

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and the

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. They were also used in the 1814

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, and are mentioned in

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, the national anthem of the United States: And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air.

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all above info froom wiki

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