A Giant 155 mm Howitzer Strapped to a Truck – Archer Artillery System
The Archer Artillery System is a self-propelled artillery mechanism armed with a powerful 155-millimeter howitzer capable of a range of 50 kilometers. Conceived in the last years of the Cold War, the ARCHER system was so ahead of its time that its development could not be undertaken until decades later.
The Swedish military consistently explored the concept for several years, but the promise of a more advanced mobile firepower system did not materialize until the late 2000s.
Developed by BAE Systems, ARCHER provides precision strikes and high sustained firepower, which are extremely useful for traditional fire support roles or modern peacekeeping missions. At 70 kilometers per hour, the wheeled artillery platform covers strategic, operational, and tactical mobility tasks indistinctly.
With its newest version launched in 2019, ARCHER is finally ready to join NATO’s and the world’s top militaries.
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Ever been close to the impact area of a swedish army operated howitzer 77? Not fun at all, i can tell you.
In the early 90s when I lived just aside a training ground by the name Skillingaryds skjutfält me and a friend were riding around there with my moped and we stopped at a place inside the training ground (it´s huge) called 'lilla spänneberget' and there sat a hill with a great outlook over a large field of tall grass and small bush.
We could see the impact of the howitzer rounds explode far away in the distance and since we were young boys we thought that was interesting and fun to watch. The explosions were maybe a mile or two away and they shook the ground under us. But we felt safe there on the top of the hill, where there was a bench and a trench made of concrete.
The bombs came closer and closer so we both figured it was time to get the heck out of there so we started to move towards my moped that I parked on the other side of the gate/road barrier half a mile away on the road leading to this place. When we got a few hundred meters the first round flew past us to the right and impacted a hundred meters in front of us. Then another and another and another, all exploding closer and closer to where we were. Since we couldn't get to the moped we went back to the hill and got into the concrete trench.
Suddenly it got quiet, we sat there for a little while until we decided to try to get to the moped again so we walked down the hill and two VW buses full of soldiers came fast towards us and stopped in front of us, three or four jumped out with drawn weapons, maybe it was the swedish made k-pist? Anyway, they yelled loudly and ordered us to get into the bus and we were taken to the base of operations where we were led to a small room and some angry looking officer walked in and started handing it to us with words that might have been a little over the top even for teens like us. We got held there for a while and first our parents came and just after that the police came and asked us questions. Our parents got to take us home though after a long interrogation and some months after we stood in front of a judge and had to pay fines for it.
I remember it was in the tv news but sadly I haven´t been able to find the footage of it, think it even was on the local news recap for the year.
Fun times…
Scoot and shoot…….. nice, but the loading of the shells and propellant takes 'for ever' in comparison. It must be possible to do this quicker and safer (the loaders less exposed). Why not load some sort of container in a safe place, and replace this container in a minute if the conditions are 'less than ideal' ?
Bigass gun. Bigass truck… What's not to like?
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As all your content: short but accurate and informative. thank you!
Sweden seems to produce all this state of the art tech but they're oh so Neutral huh….
With it's fast set up time and get out of dodge time you can get closer to the enemy than anyone else. With improved targeting in the future this thing will dominate all battles.
All while General Milley puts on his dress wig and bedazzled buttplug
One of the best of it's kind!
I can not understand why it’s not in Ukrain. It has the range that they are lacking and fast movement. BA System please deliver or Sweden sell your old ones to Ukrainian
Give the Ukrainians 20 and the war will be over in months, and Russian soldiers will be terrified.
Easy on the music
Awesome! A vid on the M142 HIMARS would be cool too!
But the german "Panzerhaubitze 2000" can do everything better execpt autoloading, right?
Americans with this bad boy. Imagine putting one of these on a navy ship with guided artillery shells mad and hit beaches with it they can hang back. While marines storm the beach. Tbh alot of uses for this on different platforms.
Danger Zone.
Ukraine needs this.
Perfect vehicle for the Los Angeles freeways. Just what the tail gaters do not want to see.
There was a prototype called the Howitzer 77D back in ´96 when i did my military service that was very similar to this.
Also had MRSI capability but shorter range.
The Archer system is almost certainly a development of that prototype so i'd say development of the Archer system began way earlier than stated in this video.
the real enameys are running your governments world wide like Justin T and Joe Biden they are the problem because they are communests and totally corupt.
The US needs to send all of those to the Ukraine go Ukraine!
Christian van koenigsegg the designer of this too?
I have 1 mounted in bed of my dodge dually.
Works great but rocks a little.
Knock, Knock. Who's there? You're dead.
The challenge with this system, is that while it is is good and actually works. However it's the wheel based problem. Norway and many others, have challenges in the terrain, IE less flat and vast areas with no road (remember, the enemy comes from the east), and units on belts are the best option. I wonder what kind of movement this thing would have had, if they had just put it on a "half track" solution? But I guess it might not be popular from a maintenance point of view, as more shit to maintain. Just to be able to drive through a slightly more muddy path.
Awesome video but the word Chassis is pronounced "cha-see"
a wiggle wagon with a huge gun, now that's what I'm talking about!
And the fact that Sweden is close to becoming a member of NATO probably won't hurt when it comes to sales.
It would be interesting yo compare this system to its French equivalent Caesar (series 1 on a Tatra chassis, series 2 on a Renault one) which looks to have been more successful at export (probably because it is lighter and nimbler, and able to operate in integrated battery groups of six units electronically interconnected).
If you think this looks out of place look at the Boxer RCH 155 it is the next generation of wheeled artillery support but looks very weird.
artillery suited for peacekeeping?!? i dont think thats how it works.
this thing is bad ass, hope With Canadas new defence budget it gets our asses into these!! Ukraine has proved the importance of MOBILE artillery
I've been subscribed for a long time…but for fucks sake, please learn how to pronounce chassis (CHasē,ˈSHasē).
It really is a brain splinter.
Excuse the ignorance – I just do not understand how they "simply" EXTEND the lenght of the gun-barrel. When they move you can see that gun is shorter and in a sort of … "safe-position" mode – then they stop – stabilize the platform and you can see the barrel being extended. What is it? … a 2-pieces arrangement??
get it to the Ukraine .
I wanna buy one but do they take Klarna?
Archer with Excalibur; wow!
I hope the Ukraine is getting it.