“Right now, Russian artillery currently outranges US and NATO artillery by a not small margin.”
That’s because we retired all of our 175mm and 210mm guns.
This precision guided and rocket boosted round is like a fire cracker unless it lands right on you.
There is simply no substitute for heavy artillery.
These are guns!
“The US Navy’s Iowa (four ships) class battleships carried a main armament of nine 16”/50 caliber guns in three triple turrets. The previous North Carolina (two ships) and South Dakota (four ships) classes carried a very similar main battery of nine 16”/45 caliber guns. These 10 ships, completed between 1941 and 1944, comprised the USN’s “third generation” battleships and all saw service in WW II.
The designation 16”/50 means a 16” diameter shell and a barrel 50 calibers long. That would be 16x50=800 inches, or a barrel 66.66 feet long. The 16”/45 gun fired the same shells from a slightly shorter barrel 60 feet long.”
https://www.chuckhawks.com/16-50_gun_facts.html
Too bad the BBs are museum pieces!
During the Vietnam era, I flew several “range clearance” missions for the USS New Jersey prior to her deployment to Vietnam. A full broadside seen FRom the air is damned impressive!
Then, in 1983, as a civilian contractor, I went to Hawaii in New Jersey and witnessed, up close and personal, several main gun shoots. The two weeks I spent in New Jersey remain one of my most memorable life experiences!
HST, “smart bombs” relegated BBs to the dustbin of history, and they may do the same to long range artillery.