You should try the D-30 im sure u wont be disappointed

Happiest man in Artillery!! Love his passion.

Absolutely!!

He is a top bloke

When you do a job that you love there is nothing better!

@@thehanksadventures1735 It's dealing with Veteran Affairs that's the problem, ask any Vet.

Cheers mate!! Hope you are doing well. 😊

Think we're still fighting farmers and goat herders? Those days are gone. Now they've got E.W., I.S.R., Air and Arty support too. Our Safari's in the Global South are finished. It's Peer to Peer now. Peace.

The 105s are still seeing service with the Ukrainians at present.

@@alonsocushing2263 Anything they can find is seeing service with the Ukrainians at present.

The powers that be were promising SP's in the 1990s... never going to happen. Not enough kick backs to the Generals making the decisions.

105mm systems fell out of favour because 4 M777s can achieve equal and greater lethality then 6+ M118/119s whilst also being light enough to be air mobile. The biggest issue that we’ve had with the 777 is that it was never designed to be a field howitzer, it was designed to be air dropped into a FOB/FSB with the tires only being rated for sealed roads. We’ve tried to employ it as a lightweight M198.

They're already on order bud!

@@Adsjabo yeah I know but expected in a couple of years

Conventional artillery will always have a place on the battlefield.

2025 we get the self propelled howitzer

Traditionally 70% of wars are fort with cannon

They can set up a hell of a lot quicker. This is pre-exercise event. It's before a training event. Basically just go out, make sure the gun works, clean it, pack up and prepare for exercise when it starts, the next day. There's no need to rush. In exercise and ideal conditions, one of these can be deployed, set up, shoot 4 rounds, pack up and displace in under 10 minutes with ease.

Towed howitzer has advantage of being air inserted by helicopter.

@@sesameseedbar8853maybe they can do all that in 10 minutes, with a slick and well drilled detachment but it only takes 90 seconds for counter battery as has been shown in the recent Ukraine/Russia conflict. A lot of the newer SPH systems can emplace in 2 minutes, fire a burst of 3 rounds and then displace in 1 minute, this greatly reducing the chance of CBF. Of which not much matters due to the over saturation of sensors in the current battle space.

@footageking91 Who's talking about tubes? E.W. and I.S.R. means you get off 2 rounds before Russian hate arrives. Towed arty is 19th and 20th Century tech, check your Calendar.

As the grandson of a brigadier general from WW2 responsible for the Australian and NZ artillery units, I can tell you our artillery capability is light years ahead of those nations

You just got your ass handed to you by footageking91 champ.

Maybe ask the Russians how they feel about the examples of this gun that Australia donated to Ukraine.

@@stephenrogers7362 I can look online for the Photo's of those exact Australian donated M777's plus our Bushmasters, M113 A.P.C.'s and M113AS4 all burned, destroyed, captured and DISPLAYED AS WAR TROPHIES in Patriot Park Moscow. Onyx listed most M777's are destroyed, the rest are u/s with broken barrels, recoils, trails and sights due to no spares being sent with them, and no one to maintain them anyway. In 21st Century the M777 is fragile, high maintenance, slow and antiquated. It can't evade or hide or move away from C.B. fire or Drones. It is a fat slow obvious soft target. We're not fighting farmers and goat herders any more. It would have been great at F.S.B. CORAL in 1968. In 2023 it's good for recruiting kids and War Trophies. Gotta admit, as an ex-Digger seeing IDENTIFIED AUSTRALIAN ARMY equipment as someones else's WAR TROPHIES from someone else's War does shame me. And surprisingly, people die in Bushmasters just as horribly as any other P.M.V.. Peace.