[Chainmail]

While I was working on Marine Corps artillery development, we had the opportunity to watch the Caesar perform in France and later in the States. The Marine Corps Combat Development folks didn't care (they were fixated on the "lightweight" towed 155mm M777) and the Army was still swooning over the poor soon-to-be discontinued 50 ton Crusader. The Caesar seems to be an excellent solution for better mobility and flexibility for the 155mm medium general support gun (it's nor really a howitzer).

I spent a number of years working on a fully-automated 120mm mortar and later developing a precision fire on the move capability for that weapon on an LAV. No luck with anyone getting interested in that either.

The artillery community seems to believe in self-obsolescence, so who are we to get in their way..?

[batterycommander]

I think that China may challenge us in many ways in the future as we have seen in naval forces, and we’ll soon discard our transformational boutique brigades and low artillery profiles of the early 21st century and resume traditional larger force elements to counter the PLA threat. This gun could be an essential element of that force.

[GreyFriar]

I wonder how it compares to the Czech 152mm gun “Dana,” also on an 8x8 Tatra truck chassis for Southack’s points?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/152mm_SpGH_DANA