Ukrainian artillery | War is Algebra | Episode 25 

What people failt to mention is that the gunner can put in the next target coords on the run so when it is time to halt shoot and fire the computer automaticly aims the gun when in position. Truly shoot and scoot!

Amazing machine! And its a Volvo :)

the major downside of Archer is, that the ammunition load is very limited. Its a great division level artillery for counter battery or high value targets, but when you have to bombard enemy positions to shoot them ready for assault or bombard enemy forces approaching to repell assaults, its very limited ammuniton capacity and long rearming time is a major weakspot.

​@@zhufortheimpaler4041 From what I could find, normally towed artillery has a fire rate of: Burst: *5 rounds in 60 seconds* Intense: 10 rounds in 2 min 30 seconds. Where sustained fire for towed artillery is *60 rounds in 60 min, (1 round per minute)* As for the Archer: Multiple rounds simultaneous impact (MRSI) capable with *4 to 6 rounds depending on the range, burst of 3 rounds in 20 seconds,* Intensive mission of *21 rounds (full magazine) in 3 minutes* Continuous shooting, *54 rounds in 35 minutes (roughly 1.5 rounds per minute)* So, 54 rounds per 35 minutes. that's roughly *50% faster* than a common towed artillery for sustained fire. this includes reloading the magazine 3 times. As for the bursts and intensive fire rare Archer is again much faster. The deploy and retreat time is also A lot faster for the Archer. To me it seems like the Archer is just faster and more efficent in every aspect compared to a common towed artillery.

​@@Rimmer666it's a. haubits put on a volvo dumper, in this case, but there are other configuratinsRheinmetall HX2 8×8 and probebly more in the future.

I think not, it is just x and y. And the computer has the terrain map, not a chance a person does it faster.

@@benktlofgren4710 I think he was agreeing with you. English might just not be his first language.

Was sitting and waiting in a much bigger and huger Howitzer - they begged me in a cold winter night to take a "siesta" - on a forest hill with nuclear warheads & and then and only then You have no "besoin/French" or "besogno/Italia" need NOT to have "that a human in the heat of battle" makes corrections and directs and overwatches the actual direct aim hits. It was in the biggest manoevre against Russia in the cold war times. My point is that an old German or French or British or U.S. classical Canon in the 1980ies was with several seats in a linear row behind a high metallic wall and open roof like a giant tank.

The Archer can recalibrate itself..

No other artillery in sweden than the Archer. But yes they used old barrels for it.

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Norwegian _ordered_ Archer.. they are all Swedish. ;)

@@2.Cuzzzz well you never did end up buying them did you? So _technically_ they never were norwegian. ;)

@@2.CuzzzzThe archer system had already been in development (by Sweden) for 16 years when Norway joined in 2008, to then leave in as early as 2013. It's a weapon system developed entirely in Sweden, by a Swedish company, for the Swedish army, built on a Swedish Volvo dump truck with a Swedish howitzer on it. In what world does that make it a 50/50 Swedish/Norwegian project? Pretty sure the only thing the norwegians did was put in an order, which they later cancelled.

@@somefuckstolemynick Yes, but what i wanted to establish is that you can still see reminisce of the Norwegian Variant in the Swedish Army. Which was originally a Norwegian take on the Archer.

@2.Cuzzzz Your comment about Norway and a split 50/50 program are incorrect. The Norwegians joined the Archer program first at the production phase. Norway has neither contributed to the Archer program with development or financially. And Sweden did not "produce all anyway", they had to buy them due to the production already had started. R&D was made by FMV and Bofors. And for the NLAW program you are referring to, UK contributed financially and with production by UK based manufacturing companies. NLAW R&D was made by what today is called Saab Dynamics in Sweden.

Yes. Type the coordinate and press play. That's it.

It was made in Sweden for a conscript army.

@mysterywalker1621 Not really. For fastest possible shoot and scoot if you ever learn what that is. And with Bofors Excalibur with gps you hit what you aim for. 👋

Fun fact, When you see a Archer that has some type of turret on it's roof. It's actually a Norwegian Archer. Let me explain. So when the Archer was first put into production. Both Norway and Sweden where both gonna use the Archer. But during the production phace. They discoverd a small techinical issue that was later fixed, but that was enought for the Norwegians to pull out. Sweden still decided to produce all Archers (48) and use them instead of Norway. The norwegian Archers where desigined to also have a Turret on the roof. You can also see something simillar on that of the Norwegian Cv90s. So when you See a Archer with a turret on the Roof, It's a Norwegian Archer.

They will use whatever they have ammo for.

In the long term it will be NATO calibres. They don't have Russian artillery, they have Soviet and other former "East block" countries.

After this. Absolutely nothing!

in the long run its likely a system like the PzH2000 that will be adopted. Currently they take whatever they can get. Due to limited production numbers of proper SPG´s like PzH2000, Ukraine currently recieves primarily truck mounted artillery like Archer and Caesar. But near the end of the year, they will recieve RCH155, the wheeled successor to PzH2000 and of that a larger batch.

This truck was originally designed for one main purpose, mining. Later some versions for timber hauling was made. The design was intended to be able to traverse through forests and were therefore considered suitable for the task, given the landscape of Sweden.

@@hellmalm that it was.