As Much as You Ever Wanted to Know About 155M Artillery Shell Production

Re:As Much as You Ever Wanted to Know About 155M Artillery S... by lmm on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:55AM (#39298747)

> 10,000 shells can be displaced by 100 missiles.

That might still be a bad tradeoff given that these 155mm shells are apparently $8,000 each, whereas a Storm Shadow is apparently $3,200,000 a pop.

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Re:As Much as You Ever Wanted to Know About 155M Artillery S... by jncfhnb on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:22AM (#39299274)

You’re not hitting the same targets with a storm shadow

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Re:As Much as You Ever Wanted to Know About 155M Artillery S... by hef19898 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @04:28AM (#39300002)

Plus, leveling the target area with dumb shells is not necessarily working, exhibit A the Western Front in WW1. And if said target area is a city, the leveling is kind of frowned upon nowadays (depending of course on who is levelling and who is being levelled).

The alternative is guided artillery shells. And those are damn expensive.

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Re:As Much as You Ever Wanted to Know About 155M Artillery S... by denton-scratch on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:11AM (#39301530)

I read that the UK Storm Shadows are configured as bunker-busters, with two warheads - one for breaking into the bunker, one to explode inside it. The French Storm Shadows (can't remember what they call them) carry cluster warheads, which I suspect are more use to Ukraine during the current positional warfare.

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