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That is exactly what I said when I saw the statement. The disparity between Indian and Chinese heavy artillery is around 5:1. If India sets a static defence they are going to be so outgunned the Chinese will just pound them for weeks while Indian guns will be silenced in the first couple of...

Easier than disassembling ATAGS, hauling it up a cliff by donkey, reassembling it and hoping counter battery fire doesn't destroy your position. The worst strategy is a static defence, you have to push the enemy so you control the fight especially against an enemy with the resources of China...

They are not going to haul ATAGS up the mountain by mule when it weighs as much as Caesar with its truck chassis. If you are dropping fixed artillery into the mountains you choose something lighter that can be slung to a helicopter like M777 which is why India bought M777.

You might want it to be a static mountain fight but the terrain changes as soon as either side makes a breakthrough. You can use roads and valleys for maneuvering. NLOS counter battery fire goes up and lands on your head regardless of terrain. If the cliff is so steep they can't lob a shell...

If ATAGS weighed 12t it could possibly do 12km/h with 95kW. At 18t it isn't going to go any faster than the 7km/h of the Bofors. It is 50% overweight. There is one truck for each artillery piece. They do not make round-trips delivering one at a time. It is run by the APU that charges a...

Bofors only weighs 11.5t, ATAGS is 18t so how is that possible?

There are auxiliary vehicles that carry reloads. Are you sure it is less parts? There are plenty of parts on that gun, it looks more automated. You have no more than 90 seconds from the time you fire to the time you need to be out of the zone. At the rate that APU moves it is not going to...

They use the same Volvo engine so it would actually go slower than this as it weighs more.

It isn't even walking speed...

And the purpose of that is to do what exactly? If there is incoming counter battery fire it will not move you far or fast enough to avoid it. It has to be reattached to the transport vehicle which takes too much time. It is too heavy to be slung to a helicopter.

ATAGS cannot move hundreds of kilometres on it's own. It has a small auxilary engine that can be used for positioning. Caesar does have an APU for power generation and a recovery vehicle to move it if it breaks down. The truck that hauls ATAGS consumes more fuel and with two sets of...

It is all built into the suspension system, once the trajectory is locked it will automatically set where it started. I see plenty of reason to have an air transportable self-contained system that can drive to the action even if it is hundreds of clicks away. All the enemy need do to a train...

More like Lemons & Limes That is all well and good, but at the end of the day transport equation rules. Who cares if it looks awkward? It works is all that matters.

Caesar 155mm is 18t, truck included. I think they need to do more weight reduction if the gun weighs as much as an entire SPG.

The shell hit the muzzle break which means the trajectory of it as soon as it left the barrel was off by several degrees. It could have been caused by either uneven detonation of the charge or the rifling was so screwed up the shell was bouncing off the sides like a smooth-bore musket...