Link "Hopefully" below:

Try thisClip

and this

What is it I'm watching - just a guided shell?

 

Heres one going down range for real!!!

 

Is the square box on the upper left of the cradle a permaneet feature, or attached as required?

Carl,

See page 10 of this presentation.  Link to PDF file below:

 

"JUST" a guided shell.....Heresy, burn the unbeliever :).   Seriously just think what a 6 gun battery or even a 3 gun troop/platoon can do now in support of the manoeuver forces.  This capability is having a massive affect on how artillery is deployed and utilised.

I grant that I can see it being useful in certain scenarios, and I am certainly no expert on artillery, but the more I read - the more I see the importance of calibre and persistence.  At least as is the case when dealing with a dug-in enemy.  Once the fire has been adjusted onto the target area - do you really need every round to be guided?

 

The advantage of this sort of capability, seems to be more in providing very short precise fire missions, such as on H Hour at the start of an assault.  When it comes to counter-battery fire where you don't know the exact location of the enemy mortar/gun, or in suppressing an area, I would have thought standard rounds would have been of more use.

Couple of good questions/comments in your post below.  Deserves a better response than I have time to give right now.  Ill come back to this tomorrow sometime and put my "Commanders Intent Briefing" hat on.