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To: buwaya
There are only so many shots you can fire before the piece needs a rebuild.

Yep, worn out unreliable and inaccurate. Need DPICM. Excuse/replacement for maneuver. IOW done.

110 posted on 07/10/2023 7:17:31 PM PDT by xone ( )
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To: xone

They repair the howitzers and replace what needs to be replaced.


112 posted on 07/10/2023 7:21:01 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: xone

155mm DPICM needs as much accuracy as 155 HE. You only get 60-odd bomblets. You get a better effect radius but not that much. Long ago it was explained to me that what you do get is a more “even” effect within that radius, if that makes sense. Also, gunpits become irrelevant. Also, vehicles become more vulnerable, even SPGs, as the bomblets are AP.

I think (we will know more after the war) there is a maintenance cycle going back and forth into Poland, where re-barrelling is done, etc.

Anyway, if they are going through that much ammo, they need the guns to do it with, so they have them. Else there wouldn’t be an ammo problem.


115 posted on 07/10/2023 8:37:16 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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