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As per the deal M-109A5 were to be delivered during 2007 and I have not heard any news about the delay in delivery or otherwise. Therefore it is safe to assume these have been delivered to Pakistan.
PZH and Firtina would be destroyed by artillery fire as well, but in SH-1's case it can "shoot and scoot" to avoid counter fire at 90 km/hr. Also these systems are very expensive, if tracked SP platform is required, I think PLZ 04/05 would be ideal choice.
During the just concluded visit to China of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Islamabad and Beijing inked a contract under which the Pakistan Army will procure an initial 36 A-100E 300mm multi-barrel rocket launchers and two SLC-2 active phased-array weapons locating radars. This follows the round of competitive evaluations conducted by the Pakistan Army of the A-100E and the competing AR-2, another 300mm MBRL also of Chinese origin. Also expected to be procured in future from China are approximately 90 SH-1 155mm/52-calibre motorised howitzers. The A-100E, developed by China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp (CPMIEC), comprises a 300mm 10-tube launch vehicle, reloading vehicle and command-and-control vehicles, all of which are mounted on the WS-2400 8 x 8 wheeled chassis. All 10 rockets can be fired within 60 seconds, and it can be reloaded in 20 minutes. The NORINCO-built AR-2 MBRL, on the other hand, has 12 launch tubes from which rockets armed with a wide variety of warheads are fired. The warhead options include fragmentation sub-munitions warhead, anti-tank mine scattering warhead, shaped-charge fragmentation submunitions warhead, separable HE-fragmentation warhead, fuel-air explosive warhead, and HE-fragmentation warhead.
The NORINCO-built SH-1 motorised 155mm/52-calibre howitzer underwent extensive mobility and firepower trials last December in Pakistan’s Northern Areas, and underwent similar field trials last June in the Thar Desert. The SH-1 can fire rocket-assisted V-LAP projectiles out to 53km, as well as laser-guided projectiles like NORINCO’s ‘Red Mud’ and KBP Instrument Design Bureau’s Krasnopol-M2. The SH-1 can also fire base-bleed 155mm rounds out to 42.5km, and its truck chassis houses a fibre-optic gyro-based north positioning-cum-navigation system, battlespace management system, autonomous orientation-cum-muzzle velocity radar, gun loader’s display-cum-ramming control box, ammunition box housing 25 rounds (of seven different types) and their modular charges, and a network-centric artillery fire direction system.
A complete SH-1 Regiment comprises 24 SH-1s, four Battery Command Post vehicles, one Battalion Command Post vehicle, one road-mobile CETC-built JY-30 C-band meteorological radar, four 6 x 6 wheeled reconnaissance vehicles, and an S-band CETC-built SLC-2 artillery locating-cum-fire correction radar.
Last year on September 9, the Pakistan Army accepted at its Nowshera-based School of Artillery the first of twelve 18-tonne T-155 Panter 155mm/52-calibrre towed howitzers from Turkey’s state-owned Machines and Chemical Industry Board (MKEK). The Panter was co-developed in the late 1990s by MKEK and Singapore Technologies Kinetics. For producing the 155mm family of munitions, Wah Cantonment-based Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) has teamed up with South Korea’s Poongsan and on April 12 this year, Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani symbolically received the first lot of licence-assembled K-307 BB-HE and K-310 155mm BB dual purpose improvised conventional munitions (DPICM) Ammunition from POF Chairman Pakistan Lt Gen Syed Sabahat Hussain.
TRISHUL: Pakistan Army Upgrades Its Field Artillery Prowess
1. Not sure if the low number implies a 'dislike' rather than use for evaluations - it may still be in the running for future acquisitions.
2. Firtina is tracked, and its seems the PA is considering wheeled SP artillery (more mobility).
3. 56 million for 115 M109A5 howitzers seems pretty good, especially since they would have commonality with the existing M109A2's.
"PZH and Firtina would be destroyed by artillery fire as well, but in SH-1's case it can "shoot and scoot" to avoid counter fire at 90 km/hr"
Bro, I do not think same with you. Tracked Howitzers are always perform more protection than Wheeled ones against many threats. Anyhow, No suspect that Trackeds are more capable than wheeled ones out of paved ways, in muddy and hilly areas. I think, The main advantages of wheeled ones are the speed factors. Example; While SH-1 has a speed about 90km/h, T-155 Firtina reachs 70km/h. but If we assess the speed factor with muddy-hilly field manouvrability out of paved ways, We can think that Trackeds are more operational than wheeled ones in real battlefields.
If you check the moves of T-155 firtina over the snowy paved and muddy roads in this video, It can be understand more clear. We can not hope a Wheeled howitzers to perform same manoeuvrability over the same road with snow.
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1. Not sure if the low number implies a 'dislike' rather than use for evaluations - it may still be in the running for future acquisitions.
2. Firtina is tracked, and its seems the PA is considering wheeled SP artillery (more mobility).
3. 56 million for 115 M109A5 howitzers seems pretty good, especially since they would have commonality with the existing M109A2's.
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MASHALLAH very impressive, the only Snowy places where pakistan army is most likely to use T-155 Firtina would be in jammu & Kashmir or in northern province of NWFP if our western border is violated by sophisticated enemy. I would fully invest and trust wholeheartely in purchasing both turkish 155mm howitzers rather than purchasing from the betraying amercians.
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