Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the assistance provided by the United States and NATO countries to Ukraine has also been a considerable amount of weapons and ammunition. This has also led to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict that has not stopped for more than two months. Recently, the Ukrainian army has once again obtained a large killing weapon, known as the king of rapid fire in the truck gun, which is aided by sweden, a military industrial power, so how powerful is this "archer" self-propelled gun?
This "Archer" self-propelled gun is based on the FH77B 155 mm howitzer of the Swedish Bofors company, using volvo A30D type 6×6 articulated truck chassis, 52 times caliber 155 mm body tube gun, with autonomous combat capability, depth precision strike capability, rapid response capability of Sweden's next generation of self-propelled artillery.
The Archer self-propelled gun was mounted on the chassis of a modified Volvo 6×6 all-terrain vehicle in Sweden, dispensed with a 52-caliber 155 mm gun with a 25-liter chamber volume, and adopted the cradle and resettlement device of the FH-77B towed howitzer.
The FH-77 BW Type 52 caliber 155 mm howitzer is equipped with an automatic loading system, the crew of the system is reduced to 3, and the crew can be remotely loaded, aimed and launched in the cabin equipped with armored and nuclear biological and chemical protection systems. The howitzer has a rapid rate of fire of 3 rounds/15 seconds and a magazine capacity of 20 rounds.
The howitzer system installed a "Lemur" remote-controlled weapon station for self-defense at the top of the crew compartment, which can be equipped with a 7.62 mm machine gun, a 12.7 mm machine gun or a 40 mm automatic grenade launcher.
In addition to the computer fire control system, the standard equipment of the howitzer also includes inertial navigation and aiming systems, which can not only shorten the time it takes for the gun to enter the combat state, but also improve the accuracy of the gun's shooting. The maximum range of this howitzer depends on the projectile/charge combination, with a maximum range of 40 km when firing conventional shells and 60 km when firing XM982 Excalibur guided shells.
The howitzer carries 40 rounds, of which 20 are loaded in a fully automatic magazine. The howitzer is equipped with a direct-fire day and night sight that can aim directly at targets up to 2 km away.
The Archer self-propelled gun uses a highly integrated target capture system to obtain high-precision target information, such as the ballistic computer within the artillery computer system, which enables the gun to complete fire control and self-positioning. It can carry out fully autonomous shooting according to the coordinate information of the target.
For accurate ballistic calculations, the artillery computer is connected to the muzzle velocity radar to measure the initial velocity of the shell. Artillery computer systems can perform various ballistic calculations and can achieve fully autonomous combat. This time, the Ukrainian army obtained this kind of large-scale killing weapon, which was simply a charcoal in the snow, and gave the Ukrainian army a strength to resist the Russian army.