[pierrem15]

What’s the cost per round? A great weapon, but it’s likely to be produced in too small a quantity and too expensive to be effectively used.

[Chainmail]

Cost per shot does reduce the amount of rounds available - which inevitably means fewer conventional M107 HE rounds will be bought. Fewer HE available means that massed fires - the really decisive artillery role - will be missing in the tradeoff to buy these things.

Another issue is how long these will last in storage: Copperhead guided 155mm HE was fun stuff to shoot but didn't weather well in the long term. When we were required to fire them, fairly often they went where they felt like and ignored the laser designator - we even had one land in the road and EOD had to deal with it!

I am also curious about Time of Flight - how long will it take this round to get to the target? Enemies tend to be a bit uncooperative about sitting still.

[ansel12]

“””””What’s the cost per round? A great weapon, but it’s likely to be produced in too small a quantity and too expensive to be effectively used.””””””

It is an artillery round added to the pile sitting by the guns, it isn’t to replace the other 155 shells, similar to having a pocketful of different shotgun shells, you put in the particular shell type you want for that shot.