Meet the M1299, the new Army howitzer with twice the range of the Paladin

taskandpurpose.com ^ | July 24, 2019 | Jared Keller

[PROCON]

As an old Redleg, (Artilleryman) from 40 years ago, and having been in units with 175mm, 8", 155mm and 105mm howitzers/guns, I find it fascinating to keep up with the latest artillery technology.

[Bonemaker]

Now all we have to do is get enough capable people to man them.

[PROCON]

Pingy

[TigersEye]

Don’t feel bad. No one can be #1 forever! :)

[BBQToadRibs]

70km and eventually 100km within 4 years.

That’s just an insane “reach out and touch someone.”

I wonder what accuracy is at that range with so many variables on that length/arc of a flight path. Some serious number crunching in there.

[RitchieAprile]

Wonder if there will a civilian model. .

[MrEdd]

When I was a 2171 we just had 105s and 155s.

[PROCON]

BWAHAHAHA

[mountainlion]

Having been on fire bases with all the above I have no desire go go near any of them. Give me a Rome Plow and a jungle and turn me loose.

[Mariner]

“Some serious number crunching in there.”

The computer does it, or it doesn’t get done. To include weather drones/balloons to measure wind along the way.

[PROCON]

40 years ago, we fire direction center guys could manually, (artillery slide rule/chart) plot a 175mm, firing 10 miles downrange, to impact within 10 meters of target, taking all variables into account: weather/wind direction, earth rotation, round rotation, etc.

Nowadays with GPS I imagine much better accuracy.

Of course with nuke rounds, (which we never did fire during the Cold War, thankfully), impacting in one grid square was close enough.

[Zathras]

Now THAT would keep the kids off your lawn!

[GreyFriar]

Field Artillery ping. I began as a 13E for M-109s and M-109A1s; then the Army made me a 13F when that MOS was created just for forward observers, aka FIST personnel.

Any suggestions on a name for this new gun?

[yarddog]

Didn’t the Germans have an 80 mile gun over a hundred years ago?

[Bonemaker]

That’s some serious range! How do you convert between caliber and mm?

[Bonemaker]

[BeauBo]

“an eye-popping 100 km “within the forthcoming four years.””

Blown away.

Without so much as a flash visible on the horizon.

[PROCON]

The computer does it, or it doesn’t get done.

Not 40 years ago.

We had the FADAC, (field artillery digital automatic computer), which a good FDCer could beat in deriving firing data, and we often fired off of manually derived firing data.

[BBQToadRibs]

“Didn’t the Germans have an 80 mile gun over a hundred years ago?”

WWII, 47km, but it really didn’t get much use. The money they dumped into it could have been used better. And then they destroyed it so the soviets wouldn’t capture it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

[colorado tanker]

I read somewhere that FA is teaching manual fire control again so that the batteries can operate even if an electronic attack takes out the computers.