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“The audacity of the wheeled cannon is the maximum efficiency,” Beaudouin told Defense News. “You sacrifice nothing in terms of firepower, rate of fire, precision and range, and you’ve got a truck, armored all the same, but which is able to be nimble, which is very stealthy.”

Beaudouin was part of the French Army’s decision to buy an upgraded Caesar, so he might be suspected of bias toward wheels. But at least nine other countries, including the U.K. and Germany, decided to invest in self-propelled wheeled howitzers in the past year. Analysts said the Ukrainian experience is driving military planners’ interest.

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Interest in wheeled self-propelled artillery flows from a desire for a “much higher degree of mobility and survivability” than towed guns, said Daniels. Military staff who see wheels as an attractive option over tracks “often define survivability in a broader way, as opposed to seeing it purely from the physical protection offered by onboard armor,” he added.

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“Ukrainian use of shoot-and-scoot artillery fire suggests that the future lies in highly mobile artillery, be they tracked or wheeled,” Jones said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14513149/Russia-nightmare-Ukraine-best-artillery-guns.html

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Shells win battles. Troops win wars

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Germans called infantry the queen of all arms, soviets called artillery the god of war. We know who won.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Never let a good line get in the way of statistics

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342260/wwii-mobilization-by-country/

The Red Army was double the Germans, who had to fight on two fronts. Troops win wars. Artillery wins battles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

This statistic alone doesn't tell you anything because according to a Land forces production overview table here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II

USSR had Germany beaten in artillery pieces production 5:1.

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