Foreign candidates for the US Army's towed howitzer replacement effort

[Slater]

The French CAESAR gun is probably cheaper but the Swedish "Archer" system looks far more automated:


https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...er-competition


https://www.janes.com/defence-news/n...nt-competition

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

So this is the new form-factor for non/light armour guns? No one is actually going to tow guns? Counter battery fire just too fast to do it the old fashioned way?

[Diamondback]

Depends who'll agree to Technology Transfer and license-building. Even when we licensed a British plane, the English Electric Canberra light bomber, we insisted that they enter a license-build arrangement with Martin for our B-57 copies.

If we don't get the whole TDP to build it from the wheels up here we won't buy it, and manufacturers are understandably VERY reluctant about giving enough info that somebody else could reverse engineer THEIR product and build unlicensed, or reverse-engineered and improved, copies.

[Tony617]

Depends who'll agree to Technology Transfer and license-building. Even when we licensed a British plane, the English Electric Canberra light bomber, we insisted that they enter a license-build arrangement with Martin for our B-57 copies.

If we don't get the whole TDP to build it from the wheels up here we won't buy it, and manufacturers are understandably VERY reluctant about giving enough info that somebody else could reverse engineer THEIR product and build unlicensed, or reverse-engineered and improved, copies.

Didn’t they have do a redesign of the Canberra bomber and use standard United States dimensions rather than metric as well?

[Diamondback]

Yeah, and the FALs the Army tested had to be redesigned from square one even though the L1A1 and C1A1 were both already in Imperial measurements and off-the-shelf.