Are we currently running 6 or 8 guns per battery?

 

Doing the maths and working on the assumption that we need to provide 1 battery for each of our soon to be 7 regular battalions with 6 guns per battery we need 42 guns plus and over head for training, trials and reserve.

 

On the other hand if we have 8 guns per battery we would need 56 for our planned infantry force which would leave nothing for the required training, trials and reserve overhead. 

 

This may suggest that the plan is for 5 batteries with 8 guns, 40 guns, to support our light infantry and motor infantry battalions as well as the over head with the SPG buy going ahead or possibly being delayed to coincide with Land 400, providing the opportunity to buy Donar instead of PzH2000 or K9.

If the source can't get the calibre of our current guns right then I'm going to take it at a grain of salt on the 57 gun figure.

The request was made to congress and was reported in Janes Defence Weekly and Defence Iindustry DAily aswell as AD's source.  The request included options so 57 is the total we may buy not a firm figure of what we will order.

Fair enough.

I know what you mean though..... 100mm?

Yeah, I reckon they must think we are operating French navel guns.

Damn, I was going to say that .....(it was the only time I could recall coming across a 100mm weapon at the time)

What? No mention of using the BMP-3's 2A70 gun (the one what launches 9M117 missiles) ?

They also have a few towed guns of 100mm, notably the big (looooong) T-12.

A bit outdated though.

On your Yeramba there: nice kit, kind of Sexton-ish.

But Sherman-type chassis are way old.

Maybe one of those stretched M113s all cut up and pimped out artillery style, with a Hamel thrown in there instead of a 25-pdr, make yer Yeramba a bit more modern.

For that matter, just such a hull should fit your M777 quite nicely.

Maybe use that aft pedestal design the Piranhas trialled years ago (had an autoloader ability), so you can shoot-n-scoot as needed.

Plus, you got those tracks what can go where wheels can't...

You just won't get that direct-fire-haymaker ability if you do it off a rear pedestal mount instead of hull-mounting it.

(but then again, what do you really want/need? A modern-day StuG, or a versatile SP artillery gun?)

Sorry about the multiple entries guys, the software of this site. What can I say?

 

We operate 6x gun batteries and have done so for a long time. 

 

I cannot explain where that number "57" came from, however this number will allow us to provide 3x batteries for 3 Brigade, (probably) 3x batteries for 7 brigade AND 2x for 1 Brigade, which would equate to 48x guns and then leave enough for a full 6x gun battery for 53 Independent Battery at the School of Artillery and 3x guns for the trade training school (where RAEME personel are taught how to maintain the guns).

 

I would suggest therefore that no SPG is a distinct possibility IF this order is placed. 

 

Once again, the existing reserve units will NOT get a replacement for their 105mm guns. They WILL only be using 81mm mortars in future years...

Once again, the existing reserve units will NOT get a replacement for their 105mm guns. They WILL only be using 81mm mortars in future years...

 

By reserve I meant a number of guns put aside as an attrition reserve not that they will or should be issued to reserve units