I suspect those Russian tankies would respectfully disagree with you.
The War in the Ukraine
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I suspect those Russian tankies would respectfully disagree with you.
The AGM-114L's, which the US Navy picked over the Brimstone for the LCS's, has a range of 8km, so should be around the same for the Brimstone.
Broccoli
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Can be launched without seeing enemy and missiles seek their own targets. If Ukrainians know where Russian AFV's are moving all they need to do is launch.
They are nice guerilla warfare weapons in that case. But it's important for Ukraine to know where their AFV and Russian AFV are... these missiles will not see the difference.
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So range, which comes at the expense of needing a whole truck to transport and launch it. It's still within artillery/krasnapol range.
These wonder weapons are getting worse and worse.
I am not 100% certain, but I believe the digital targeting system only pertains to the gun and can adjust traverse and elevation automatically. The optical gun sight is just a backup/check.
100% sure on this though, Excalibur round GPS coordinates are programmed by electronic fuse setter, so the two are not related.
Even if the Canadians gave any. It is very unlikely be in any significant numbers to make a difference. These shells are very expensive. In 2021, the US paid $80,948 per shell but it cost $176,624 in 2022 and the US only set aside enough money for ~417 shells for 2022 fiscal year.
Canada bough these to be compatible with US guns in Afghanistan, stockpiles of gps ammo is low ( low means less than 100 probably...). We have a small army here so it's clearly just a gift to look nice.
We had only 12 777 in december 2021 and bought 25 others, don't know if we got them... four is more or less a third of all the guns we have.