[rbmillerjr]

The 82nd abn could use this big time as it would greatly increase ability to stay light with more firepower... I would imagine 101 abn (air-assault) would be heavy on the shopping list as well.

[Combat Boot]

For those of you who were stationed at bragg, you might remeber my unit's (A 1/321 (reflagged from 1/39)) cadence... "The big guns go - Boom Boom, The little guns go - to the eighty second!"

[rangerX]

I did a study on this when XVIII Airborne Corps Artillery was first looking at this howitzer and the Royal Ordnance howitzer. The light units such as 82nd, 10th Mountain and 101st would not benefit from this howitzer, because it essentially doubles the logistics train, which is already pretty austere in these units. Also, and probably most critical, it can't be lifted by the Blackhawk, which was the original intent for the lightweight 155. Even if they had been able to get the weight down to below the 8,000 lbs that a UH-60L could lift, it still would have taken two birds to lift both the gun and crew, hence no decrease in lift requirements for airmobile raids, and possibly an increase. The study came to the conclusion that it was probably feasible for the Corps Artillery units to use the new 155, but not the Division Artillery units.