I hear from friends in the USMC that the South Africans have some of the best artillery in the world. The range of its weapons is significantly longer than US weapons.
They do have some of the best & have done a lot of joint work with the Germans on developing long range shells.They were well on their way to win this Indian contract till they shot themselves in the rear end by reportedly bribing Indian officials & getting blacklisted.
My undersanding is that tradeoffs must be made between range, accuracy, weight and barrel life.
IIRC, they use a longer tube to get the extra range.
They do. The G6 Rhino is the best SP Artillery System in the world and very long ranged, nearly double some of our stuff if you believe the OSINT.
Yes, but do South Africa’s enemies refer to their artillery shelling as “steel rain”?
They most certainly do. And one of the best wheeled APC platforms.
Semper Fi.
IIRC, that's old technology.
From the 1970s.
Not that it wasn't offered, and proven, to the US DoD at the time.
By that crazy Canadian physics genius that the Mossad eventually allegedly offed for helping Saddam build a "super" gun.
I believe the name of his long defunct company was "Space Industries". Probably because the super gun idea was originally intended to launch satellites. Artillery was an off shoot of that.