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Subject: Australian wheeled SP
ambush    3/3/2006 8:50:16 PM
Australian Army gets approval for new artillery The Australian Army is likely to favour wheeled self-propelled howitzer systems * Competing wheeled SPH manufacturers are each teamed with Australian partners to ensure through-life support. [Jane's Defence Weekly- first posted to http://jdw.janes.com - 24 February 2006]
 
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seantheaussie    RE:Australian wheeled SP   3/7/2006 4:30:31 PM
How do they reload the LIMAWS (R) prototype? Surely it doesn't extend foward like other MLRS to load as the cab is in the way. Does it extend out the arse? Is there another way I've missed?
 
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flamingknives    RE:Australian wheeled SP   3/7/2006 4:52:27 PM
Yeah, I think it takes a spent-tube dump. There appears to be some structure extending behind the tubes, which might have something to do with it.
 
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flamingknives    RE:Australian wheeled SP   3/18/2006 7:00:27 AM
This link may be of interest. Apparently LIMAWS can self-load.
 
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seantheaussie    RE:Australian wheeled SP   3/18/2006 4:01:18 PM
flamingknives good catch. Loads up the arse exactly like MLRS. These would be so much more useful for Australia on Australia's prefered truck, than light, towed 155mm. The 105mm Hamels are a close substitute for light, towed 155mm. The closest substitute for LIMAWS(R) is a F/A-18 which has rediculous operating costs.
 
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doggtag    RE:Australian wheeled SP   3/18/2006 8:49:34 PM
->"Loads up the arse exactly like MLRS." Pardon my for butting in, but no. The MLRS, and newer HIMARS, load via a similar mechanism but from the front of the box launcher, not the the rear. I spent the first half of 2005 at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, where the US Army trains the electronics maintenance personnel for HIMARS and MLRS (although many of the soldiers transfer to Ft Sill for further training- Redstone doesn't have adequate live fire ranges for extended field maneuvers with either system). Not that it's what I was there for, but their building and vehicle lot were right across the road from where I was training. http://www.army-technology.com/projects/mlrs/images/mlrs2.jpg> http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/mlrs_02.jpg> http://www.inter-coastal.net/himars_images/himars_a.jpg>
 
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seantheaussie    RE:Australian wheeled SP   3/18/2006 11:30:35 PM
""""""""Pardon my for butting in, but no. The MLRS, and newer HIMARS, load via a similar mechanism but from the front of the box launcher, not the the rear."""""""" That is what I was trying, & apparently failing, to say.
 
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neutralizer    RE:Australian wheeled SP   3/19/2006 4:40:40 AM
However, LIMAWS(R), unlike HIMARS and M270 SPLL, is loading into the rear of the launch module not the front.
 
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doggtag    Lost in the translation?   3/19/2006 10:43:24 PM
Perhaps things are different in seantheaussie's homeland, but I always thought "arse" referred to one's backside/posterior/bum, hence my rebuttle of the the US systems front-loading.
 
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seantheaussie    Australian wheeled SP    3/20/2006 2:08:47 AM
Instead of "Loads up the arse exactly like MLRS." It should have been "Loads the arse with MLRS Boom and Hoist operational system."
 
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gf0012-aust    RE:Australian wheeled SP    3/20/2006 2:13:54 AM
this thread sounds like something out of a proctologists convention...
 
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