{"id":190966,"date":"2009-10-10T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/10\/potential-successor-to-nlos-cannon-shown\/"},"modified":"2009-10-10T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T11:06:00","slug":"potential-successor-to-nlos-cannon-shown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/10\/potential-successor-to-nlos-cannon-shown\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Successor to NLOS Cannon Shown"},"content":{"rendered":"
Click for ginormous picture<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/a>Looks like the Son of MLRS<\/div>\n

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) is showing its Donar 155 mm howitzer at the AUSA convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based on a cursory read of Bill Sweetman’s blog post, and my knowledge of MLRS, I spent some time crawling over the vehicles when I was at Lockheed-Martin Missiles & Fire Control*<\/sup> in Grand Prairie, TX, it looks to me an awful lot like they modified the platform and chassis of the M270 MLRS, replacing the turret for the rockets with a (one would assume significantly beefed up to handle recoil) howitzer turret.<\/p>\n

Of note, since the automated turret and loading systems are completely removed from the crewed area, there appears to be a significant reduction in weight, since the turret does not need the same level of armor if it is not in crewed space.<\/p>\n

Additionally, there should be some cost savings involved in using an existing platform.<\/p>\n

On the downside, as compared to the now defunct NLOS-C, this is never going to fit in a C-130, though it KMW is claiming that it will fit in an EADS A-400.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Yeah, I worked there too. I didn’t work on MLRS, but on a British derivative, the LIMAWS-R<\/a>, which required me to look at the vehicles regularly.
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Click for ginormous picture Looks like the Son of MLRS Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) is showing its Donar 155 mm howitzer at the AUSA convention. Based on a cursory read of Bill Sweetman’s blog post, and my knowledge of MLRS, I spent some time crawling over the vehicles when I was at Lockheed-Martin Missiles & Fire …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1006,1025,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-technology","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}