The French Caesar Self Propelled Howitzer

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The Caesar is the French 155 mm, self-propelled howitzer, that frankly kicks ass. Using either a 6 by 6 or 8 by 8 truck chassis this behemoth comes with an autonomous weapon network incorporating an inertial navigation system and ballistic computer which allows it to easily strike targets up to 35 miles away using rocket assisted shells. This system is tailored for shoot-and-scoot tactics, being extremely fast to set up, taking around 60 seconds for the crew to be ready to fire and 40 seconds to leave after the shots. It sustains a rate of fire of six rounds per minute. It's so adapt at this tactic and quick that the only recorded unit destroyed in Ukraine, happened to a Caesar riding down the road at speed. The driver avoided the drone but lost control in the process. Ukraine has received 37 in total from France and Denmark including the newer more space age 8 by 8 wheel on the Tatra chassis which were donated as new, something that doesn’t happen often for the hand me down Ukrainian army.

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