@@benjaminshtark5977 the Name is PZH 2000 not PZH 2023, so this gun was one of the first who can do this ;) first delivery! was 1998 as an example the archer system was introduced in 2013. if u want some new capabilitys, look at RHC 155, who can shoot while moving, but u can wait 20 years and say, oh all can do this! ;)
In terms of protection, something the video did not mention was the rubber applique "hedgehog" armor added on some of the Pzh 2000s before they were transferred to Ukraine. In at least one case documented on Forbes, it saved the vehicle's operational readiness by neutering a suicide drone's shaped charge.
@@MatzWerk I don't think so; the Italian Pzh 2000 arrived in January 2023, whereas the Forbes report is from Nov 2022. It would have to be either from Germany and/or Netherlands?
@@ddshiranui Thats right i did see that hedgehog armor on Pzh 2000 in Ukraine already last fall after hit from suicide drone and it work great -no penetration!
Its a Howitzer, a HOWITZER! and not A TANK, which Howitzer you know in the World who has got a reasonable protective armor? I cant name one. The Howitzers are supposed to be 30-50km behind the front lines and also needs to be quick to relocate due to counter artilleries, they are already heavy so no need to have extra tons of armor additionally. The PHZ2000 is actually the heaviest Howitzer and best protected in the World but also 20-30 years old, the design is infact from the Cold War Era. The replacement is already in the making the RCH 155, its now operated by just only 2 crew members instead of 5 like in the PHZ2000. The newer Modell is quicker to fire, agile and fast to maneuver but no armour because its a HOWITZER! :)
I think you mean the barrel. The creation company Rheinmetall recommend a change every 4000 rounds but in Ukraine barrels with more then 20000 rounds still work fine.
While the Pzh2000 ranks among the pinncacle of current mobile artillery capabilities, a true revolution of classic artillery warfare is unfolding rather unnoticed. On August 18. 2021, the prototype of Pzh2000 succesor , the RCH155 , a lighter wheeled vehicle using the same gun system and featuring remote control capability, demonstrated its ability of carrying out a fire mission and hitting its target while driving down a dirt track with up to 30 kph. For more than 100 years, and right now in the war in Ukraine, mobile and stationary artillery had to remain stationary to fire and then to change its position as fast as possible right afterwards to escape response artillery fire resulting from the inevatible geolocation by beyond line-of-sight, acoustic, seismic or modern radar electronic counter-artillery systems.
Its not exactly the same gun its based on the L52.Ammo capacity is halved but most parts really similar. No Idea if parts of the DONAR/Boxer can be swapped with the PzH2k
Nope, sorry, the PzH2000 is able to shot while driving maximum 10km/h, it is the only artillery capable of doing this with a precision of 0,5m difference over 30km. Worked for KMW and know what this beast is capable of. The new one you mentioned is on Tyres instead of chains.
i sometimes wonder why many countries continue to produce heavy and very expensive tracked artillery units like this one? if you eliminate tracks and all armor, and put 8 wheels instead, you will have much cheaper unit with same gun and ballistics and also gain speed. for example, 152 mm SpGH DANA is excelent example of such unit. it has set of 8x8 wheels, nice gun and is much cheaper and faster than pzh2000 at least on roads.. and on off-roads it can go quite well too..
I think its because tracked vehicles still offer better offroad capabilities in bad weather conditions. Wheeled vehicles get stuck in mud , snow and sand much easier than tracked ones and have greater problems with inclines. Then there is the lack of armor as wheeled vehicles can only sustain a certain weight. Ukraine for instance had great problems with deploying their Himars during winter. The regular old Mars launchers which they got from Germany and others are slower but much more mobile during that time @@benjaminshtark5977
@@benjaminshtark5977 you didn’t notice that KMW allready presented a wheelbased one right? The base is from the 8x8 Boxer, the Tower is from the PzH2000, so combining fast movement with high precision firing power, can be used completely remotely and is way better for Urban fightplaces like we’ve got in Europe. Just search for RCH 155. Also last year Germany gave the ok to KMW to produce and deliver them to the Ukraine, but no media’s noticed this.
I was a radar sergeant (forward observer when shooting with bad weather conditions like fog etc.) in the late 90s early 2000s when we were the first battalion in Germany to receive this wonderful weapon as the successor to the M109 A3GA1. Our task was to put the PZH2000 through its paces and get the most out of it. Apparently our hard work back then is paying off today. Seeing the PZH2000 successfully in use today fills me with pride!
Russians are able to appreciate the work of German tech, again. We, Ukrainians are truly thankful to all the adequate world countries helping us defend, saving the lives in a fight against the orc invasion
In a year or two, 100 newly builded pzh2000 are ready to go to Ukraine :-)) hopefully they will only serve to prevent another attempt of Russia and celebrating Ukraines victory but likely it will make a huge impact in the end-phase of this horrific war.
The PzH is definitely a true piece of engineering art. It made a big impression on me when i was in an artillery unit for basic training over ten years ago. ZUU Gleich!
😂 yeah.. the fields of Ukraine prooven this 'engineering art' has a long way to be of any use on the real battlefield. At least we agree it's art and belongs to sit in museum.
@@red.menace0074 Go home Ruski! Your artillery is worse, just like your "only good for cooking the crew" tanks! The Panzerhaubitze 2000 is a very good artillery piece and certainly better than US-SPAGs!
Not really montioned is the fact, that the 2000 can fire and correct the ballistic curve in the way, that all three shells are in target the same time.
@@laffytaffy1417 True compared to a fully manual loader, but not the point. The video suggests that the PzH can be operated without loaders on the crew, this is not correct.
What a beast!Remembering our old M109 in the Spanish artillery.Hard to hit anything without a forward observer.Good thing the Ukranian have it to their benefit.Wear and tear of the barrells goes without saying:all those 152 d20 must be all worn out due to constant shelling.I wonder what the life of those d30 and d20 bores is.Great documentary,impressive features.Greetings from Spain.
BTW the blue ammo is only for exercise. The shell will fly and explode like a standard shell, but will a smaller bang and does not much damage when it explodes because it is filled with gypsum.
When you will hit every shot when you shot 3 rounds in 10 seconds, shaking is bad. Special german technic. Have seen this by Rheinmetall factory here in Kassel Germany. It is a huge biest. Hope it does a good job in ukraine.
@@V-V1875-h They did. The bombardement of snake island was conducted using PzH2000 and vulcano rounds as they were the only ones that had the range. They later added 1 or two Ukrainian prototype guns to that as well.
tanks saldy often get killed by minefields and artillery, though german tanks have a high survivabillity for crew@@ildarman5708 ukraine also mostly got old a4s with a few old a6 on top.
Good video but you forgot to mention a very important type off ammo: Vulcano - precision guided shells like the excalibur but with 1m accuracy and up to 70km reach. Furthermore there is a laser guided variant which can hit moving targets. Last year Ukraine received the normal variant but lately Germany delivered 10 Vulcano laser designators so I guess it is safe to assume that the laser guided variant was deleivered now.
Against vehicles I think BONUS or SMArt155 are a better choice. They are almost identical: Each shell contains 2 self-guided submunitions which search out vehicles and destroy them. Ukraine received both and there are videos of both showing one shell destroying 2 tanks. Both cover an area of around 32.000sqm and can destroy targets moving at up to 50km/h (30mph). The diffeence between BONUS and SMArt155 is that one descends on winglets, the other on tiny parachutes and BONUS uses 2 different IR sensors while SMArt155 one IR and millimeter wave radar. The beauty is that all the smarts of these are in the shells and can therefore be fired from any NATO-standard 155mm howitzer, just aim it over the area you want and the submunitions do the rest. Truly fire-and-forget. Germany paid roughly half of the cost of 1 M982 Excalibur for each of their SMArt155 shells (they gave €510 million for development and production and got 9000 shells in return with a further 400 being used for testing).
If the war in Ukraine has proved one thing it's that industrial warfare is still very much with us. There was this perception that mass production weapons were a thing of the past and warfare was going to be small amounts of high tech weapons. Ukraine has shattered that perception and in both the US and Europe there is a significant transfer of resources from expensive high tech systems to cheaper low tech systems. Biden has put in the order to triple the US production of unguided artillery shells by the end of 2023. Over the past decades the production of unguided artillery shells was wound down as there was the perception they were obsolete in the age of drones. This has proven very false.
beautiful howitzer. I can add that pzh 2000 have spacious comfortable tower. Among Ukrainians there is a joke that it is a hostel on tracks. Designed by people to people
That's a feedback I keep seeing from Ukrainian soldiers who used both Russian and Western combat systems: the Russian systems are disposable (and treat their crews as such), are hard to use and not good, whereas as the Western systems pay attention to ergonomics (less crew fatigue -> higher performance for longer), are far more precise (one gunner mentioned 500m CEP vs 50m CEP for the first round from MSTA-S vs PzH2000) and are designed for crew survivability (mostly tanks and IFVs). Designed by people for people.
K9 is not even close and the K9 autoloader is a hyprcomlicated after thougth added rigth into the crew compartment a dangerous enviorment for the cew with that many free moving heavy metal inside the crew compartment... K9 is not even close to be impressive compared to PzH2000 which was designed from ground up around the autoloader gun magazine system... the only plus for the K9 is the price
Germany once planned to order nearly 3000 pzh2000 before the fall of the soviet union. imagine how many germany could have given ukraine if they had actually ordered that many.
If Germany had ordered that many it would be because the Russians are still standing in Poland and the Warsaw Pact countries are still "safely" under their "benevolent" Soviet rule, including Ukraine. Since 1990 happened, so it happened that there was no reason to have 3000 howitzers anymore.
@@mangalores-x_x You realise that the Warsaw Pact was the only Military Alliance in History, that only attacked it's own members? Prag, Warsaw and Berlin to name a few. It is absolutely no wonder that after the collapse of the Soviet "Union", ex-member states flocked to NATO for protection. The Warsaw pact existed primarily to keep states in line and to suppress democratic movements. P.S. Not sure if your quotes are meant to show sarcasm. If so, this still stands.
If you listen to my own experiences - In Afghanistan the German Bundeswehr wasn't able to use the Panzerhaubitze 2000 because of being unable to be at a war. The Swedish Military were able to use PH 2000, because of bought by Germany - so at everytime, when the Swedish started to use PH 2000 the taliban RAN!
@@jonny2954 The time I talked about was when politicians in Germany avoided it to speak about Bundeswehr would have been at "war". They talked about humanitarian missions like building schools and drilling wells. That was FACT - but bullshit at all... But the PzH 2000 was FIRST TIME used by the BW in 2010! Nine years (!) after the BW arrived in Afghanistan. And 'zu Guttenberg' was the first minister of defense (2009 - 2011) who dared to speak of "war" in Afghanistan. You are RIGHT: Sweden never used the PzH 2000: it were the Netherlands - but the result with the Taliban was the same! And the FACT that the NL used the German PzH while the German BW ('til 2010) COULDN'T...
Hmmm from what ive heard, yes maintenance is a thing and due to lack of spareparts several vehicles ahd to be cannibalized, however (!) the absurd amount of shells they dump through the cannons is wearing them down much slower than even KMW/KNDS and Rheinmetall anticipated. I remember that they said they were pleasantly surprised to see how far they were off with their estimates on gun maintenance need while Ukraine went nearly 10 times over that and still has operational machines in great shape.
utterly crap claim...all systems are working, at begin there were some problems with overheating air compressor because of wrong use by Ukraine soldiers,,, some PzH2000 in Ukraine passed 20.000 shells on first barrle and still fire accurate ... PzH2000 set completely new durability records for howitzer... and like all german military equipment thanks to modular builld up each repair is counted in minuts not hours or days and there is no supply shortage
You didn’t even mention the best parts, it can shot in all directions without using stabilizers and can even shot while driving max speed of 10km/h It als can make a 3 Bullets burst shot(like you mentioned) in 10seconds and with change of the height of the barrel, the all hit nearly at the same time at the targeted position, so the enemy gets confused by it and thinks there are 3 PzH200 in one position when in reality there is only one. Of course the range with this tactic is shortened to 10km maximum, but the benefits out if this are huge.
@@zero.Identity nope. Sorry i worked for them, the max that is possible with precision and the speed of the loader is about 3-4 in 10 seconds, more isn’t possible.
@@zero.Identity how about you look on the website of KMW(you know, the ones i worked for who are producing this) and check the facts on how much 155mm bullets can be shot in which time.
The maintenance thing is due to the rifled barrel. It can do about 2000 to 4000 shots with precision but then the rifles get worn out and the precision is gone. Can be fixed with changing the barrel what takes some time and is costly. But precision means each round is close to the target. the russians fire too many rounds in the rough direction of the enemy and dont hit much. Mostly due to high numbers of rounds they hit something. Depends also on what you want to achieve with your artillery. Take out enemy devices and bunkers or just cover trenches of the enemy.
Russian doctrine actually has formulas for massive artillery fire: fire X rounds of caliber Y at an area of size Z to achieve a specific amount of destruction. It basically boils down to almost WW1 type massive artillery barrages. Except as we keep seeing in Ukraine: The Russians don't read their own book, apparently only western analysts do.
the PzH2000 set records in durability in Ukraine for howitzer...some systems passed 20.000 rounds fired on first barrle and still deliver with point precission... even Rheinmetal the design and builder of the gun is surprised by that fact.... the factory give a gurantee of 4.000 shells for every barrle
Enjoyed the video, and definitely glad that Bad Boy is helping Ukraine - thanks Germany. But one correction: Artillary remains King, until an attack helicopter shows up.
If enemy, then ADA will have a word with you. We give our "duck hunter" brothers ("The other Redlegs" in US parlance) some grief, but you better believe we want them hanging around to keep you out of our hair. P.S. you better hope our Intel doesn't find your FARP. We will burn it to the ground. Friendly? We have eyes everywhere. Including yours.
@@GrouchyBear411as much as i like the gepart, the alligator has mor range with rockets than the gepard can cover as AA. To defend against those you need AA with 15+ km coverage to be somewhat safe, 20km AA range to be really safe for helicopter attacks. I think ukraine has a british rocket based mid range AA system on the fields that covers that job. But the gepard can not defend sufficiently against the KA52
The reloading mechanism is scary and impressive at the same time. To know you are able to push 3 projectiles in and out of the machine at that speed knowing all 3 will hit the spot... wow You do not want to be on the receiving end... The fox hole will be redecorated
The multiple round impact was intended to allow the destruction of bridges with a single battery, simultaneously dropping around a tonne of explosives on it. Channel Säbelzahnmöwe has a series of interviews with the chief constructor of the system well worth the watch.
Ukrainian artillerymen: "uhhhh we've worn out the barrels" Rheinmetall: "it's supposed to be good for 4,500 rounds give or take, how many have you been firing?" Ukrainian artillerymen: "well over twenty thousand..." Rheinmetall: O__O
Well it's 90s tech. Rheinmetall recently tested a new artillery gun with larger chamber volume and higher pressure barrel in South Africa. They managed 76 km with regular shells.
MRSI doesnt work from that far away, since you change the ballistic trajectory and anmount of charges that can be done from like 16km max, there's info on that on the wiki
The Russian complains that any artillery shot fired is pin point. Given that the Ukrainians say that the Russian artillery is not accurate, it’s just amplify the devastation these weapons can do
PZ2000 is still double the cost and maintenance cost and timing is questionable. Ukraine also found out that PZ2000 requires non standard 155mm rounds with less powder not to overheat the barrel. PZ2000 also doesn't have K10 auto loader for faster reload in combat environment.
Yes, the price of ANYTHING depends on the amount of systems you want to buy, just look at the F-35 and how Its total price was lowered by all the other nations that wanted one
actually it even "can" shoot 20 shoots in a minute. There still is even a video of 1997 which you can find here at youtube which shows exactly this. it allready was able to do that even in the first phase long before all this later updates.
@@Nagilum3 it "does" matter what it "can" do. there always are situations in which you rather prefer to do what i can do instead of looking at a long time endurance efficiency statistic. actually this should be obvious, i dont know why somebody has to explain something like that to you. the reason why they "advice" always a slightly lesser use than what a system actually can do is because the endurace of the barrel is slightly worse but doing that for 1 minute doesnt make you need maintance or overheat the barrel xd actually even the extremely fast normal rate of fire is just for the german army if there is no war you care about the last few % of endurance enhacement and cost reduction. than it doesnt make a differnce. if there is a war and counterartillery fire you probably rather care about the lesser chance to get hit and loose, system and people
It can't shoot 20 round per minute. That would be a reloadtime of 3 seconds. No artillery system can do that. I also saw the video you mentioned. It has a sustained firerate of 12 rounds per minute und 20 rounds in 1:49 min.
the ramge is right if you take l39 nato standard ammo but if you take the 155mm l52 ammo you can reach up to 72km with the south african vlap in L52 instead of L39. So far was only nato standard tested on the pzh2000 so it's maximum range with them is 52km but with the L52 shells it can reach further (72km)
It's actually _die_ PzH 2000, which means that _she_ is the _queen_ of artillery... which is only fair: a king could never shoot so much and in such rapid succession. ;-)
Ukraine thinks different. Krabs had far higher losses than the PZH 2000, 18 out of 72 delivered Krabs have been destroyed so far, that's about 1/4th. PZH 2000 losses still stand at 0. This is also reflected in Ukraines orders, only 60 Krabs compared to 100 PZH 2000 and an additional 18 RCH 155 (PZH 2000 successor). Mainly due to the fact of the PZH 2000 set up and deploy times being shorter making it much better at shoot and scoot maneuvers.
@@dugzamilza5212 And if something wears out there, brave Ukrainian hands have been too busy shooting to kick the Russian-Nazis out of the country. Slava Ukraina!
Not a single PzH 2000 has been destroyed in Ukraine so far. Meanwhile a dozen American produced M109's and polish produced Krab systems have already been destroyed by Russian Lancet drones And the PzH 2000 has destroyed the most Russian targets in Ukraine so far, compared to all the other Western artillery systems delivered so far. And it still keeps hitting more and more every day
maybe bc it´s harder to hit 14 pzh 2000 than 76 AHS krab, they can´t be destroyed so easy bc there aren´t as many, this are just numbers, and i don´t beliive pzh 2000 has most confirmed targets destroyed
@@kaspi957nah, more the fact that the PzH2000 moves directly after it made it’s shot and will shoot from different positions on the same target pretty precise. Also there are 20 of them in the Ukraine. It also can shoot while moving up to 10km/h and got 60 Rounds in it’s magazine, so you have plenty of options how to use it and be effective af with it.
@@kaspi957 One PzH 2000 was hit by a Lancet drone but it survived the hit and got only damaged, thanks to its superior roof armor protection that stopped the Lancet drone. This is one of many unique features that only the PzH has
@@TheKamiran85 his source of these numbers is his German belief that everything German is superior to whatever the untermensch produced. In reality, the Pzh2000 is a great gun for counter-insurgency missions and it has the best armour of all SPGs, but is very prone to failure in a full-scale war. At some point, 2/3 of all PzH2000 were being repaired in Lithuania as a result of malfunctions. Also, it's physically impossible for 14 Pzh to have destroyed more targets than the hundreds of M109s, dozens of Krabs and hundreds of Soviet-vintage guns. But, again, he's German so he will believe anything as long as it confirms his beliefs in his country's superiority.
@@delinquenter Are you tripping? Definitely haven't been in the military. Artillery has been female since we first strapped cannons on horse drawn carriages. And the same is true for ships.
@@alexmk7199 SK stands for South Korea. Their new K9A2 manages to have almost comparable stats to the PZH 2000, just 20 years later. Just shows how far ahead KMW and RHM were and still are. Germany is currently developing a incrased chamber volume gun that has 80 km range for regular projectiles, opposed to the currently usual 30 to 40. Also 100+ for base bleed instead of the usual 50-60 km.
BUT it is "fragile" when a rate of fire is intense. Ukrainian experience proved that. I am not sure germans are insulted though :) for sure they will improve it. Apart of that extremely good howitzer!
We have proof of a PzH2000 getting a direct hit by a lancet... But it's not a Russian garbage truck, so it shrugged it off and kept functioning. Haven't lost a single one so far.
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The ability to fire three rounds at different angels so they hit simultaneously is impressive.
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They actually achieved 5 hits in a time window of 1.2 seconds.
most of western artilleries can do this already for years, what matters is accuracy, and range and also cost and maintenance/complexity.
@@benjaminshtark5977 the Name is PZH 2000 not PZH 2023, so this gun was one of the first who can do this ;) first delivery! was 1998 as an example the archer system was introduced in 2013. if u want some new capabilitys, look at RHC 155, who can shoot while moving, but u can wait 20 years and say, oh all can do this! ;)
its the only one that can achive 5 and excells in the other departments (except cost) as well@@benjaminshtark5977
In terms of protection, something the video did not mention was the rubber applique "hedgehog" armor added on some of the Pzh 2000s before they were transferred to Ukraine. In at least one case documented on Forbes, it saved the vehicle's operational readiness by neutering a suicide drone's shaped charge.
If you see that armour on a pzh 2000 in Ukraine than you know it is an Italian one.
@@MatzWerk I don't think so; the Italian Pzh 2000 arrived in January 2023, whereas the Forbes report is from Nov 2022. It would have to be either from Germany and/or Netherlands?
@@ddshiranui Thats right i did see that hedgehog armor on Pzh 2000 in Ukraine already last fall after hit from suicide drone and it work great -no penetration!
Its a Howitzer, a HOWITZER! and not A TANK, which Howitzer you know in the World who has got a reasonable protective armor? I cant name one. The Howitzers are supposed to be 30-50km behind the front lines and also needs to be quick to relocate due to counter artilleries, they are already heavy so no need to have extra tons of armor additionally. The PHZ2000 is actually the heaviest Howitzer and best protected in the World but also 20-30 years old, the design is infact from the Cold War Era. The replacement is already in the making the RCH 155, its now operated by just only 2 crew members instead of 5 like in the PHZ2000. The newer Modell is quicker to fire, agile and fast to maneuver but no armour because its a HOWITZER! :)
@@lexxro87 "Panzerhaubitze" literally means "tank howitzer" or "amoured howitzer", so it makes sense this piece of artillery has decent protection.
they are designed do be in maintenance after 400 rounds and urcrainians shot over 2000 rounds.... so they are just great.....
I think you mean the barrel. The creation company Rheinmetall recommend a change every 4000 rounds but in Ukraine barrels with more then 20000 rounds still work fine.
Someone forgot a zero here.....
@@85danielbest advertisment ever
@@85danielrheinmetall sells the barrels
@@85daniel They supposed to lose accuracy with too many rounds. They still shoot but dont hit that accurate. Except you have intelligent ammo.
While the Pzh2000 ranks among the pinncacle of current mobile artillery capabilities, a true revolution of classic artillery warfare is unfolding rather unnoticed. On August 18. 2021, the prototype of Pzh2000 succesor , the RCH155 , a lighter wheeled vehicle using the same gun system and featuring remote control capability, demonstrated its ability of carrying out a fire mission and hitting its target while driving down a dirt track with up to 30 kph. For more than 100 years, and right now in the war in Ukraine, mobile and stationary artillery had to remain stationary to fire and then to change its position as fast as possible right afterwards to escape response artillery fire resulting from the inevatible geolocation by beyond line-of-sight, acoustic, seismic or modern radar electronic counter-artillery systems.
Its not exactly the same gun its based on the L52.Ammo capacity is halved but most parts really similar. No Idea if parts of the DONAR/Boxer can be swapped with the PzH2k
Nope, sorry, the PzH2000 is able to shot while driving maximum 10km/h, it is the only artillery capable of doing this with a precision of 0,5m difference over 30km.
Worked for KMW and know what this beast is capable of.
The new one you mentioned is on Tyres instead of chains.
i sometimes wonder why many countries continue to produce heavy and very expensive tracked artillery units like this one?
if you eliminate tracks and all armor, and put 8 wheels instead, you will have much cheaper unit with same gun and ballistics and also gain speed.
for example, 152 mm SpGH DANA is excelent example of such unit.
it has set of 8x8 wheels, nice gun and is much cheaper and faster than pzh2000 at least on roads.. and on off-roads it can go quite well too..
I think its because tracked vehicles still offer better offroad capabilities in bad weather conditions. Wheeled vehicles get stuck in mud , snow and sand much easier than tracked ones and have greater problems with inclines. Then there is the lack of armor as wheeled vehicles can only sustain a certain weight. Ukraine for instance had great problems with deploying their Himars during winter. The regular old Mars launchers which they got from Germany and others are slower but much more mobile during that time @@benjaminshtark5977
@@benjaminshtark5977 you didn’t notice that KMW allready presented a wheelbased one right?
The base is from the 8x8 Boxer, the Tower is from the PzH2000, so combining fast movement with high precision firing power, can be used completely remotely and is way better for Urban fightplaces like we’ve got in Europe.
Just search for RCH 155.
Also last year Germany gave the ok to KMW to produce and deliver them to the Ukraine, but no media’s noticed this.
I was a radar sergeant (forward observer when shooting with bad weather conditions like fog etc.) in the late 90s early 2000s when we were the first battalion in Germany to receive this wonderful weapon as the successor to the M109 A3GA1. Our task was to put the PZH2000 through its paces and get the most out of it. Apparently our hard work back then is paying off today. Seeing the PZH2000 successfully in use today fills me with pride!
Thank you for your service!
Russians are able to appreciate the work of German tech, again.
We, Ukrainians are truly thankful to all the adequate world countries helping us defend, saving the lives in a fight against the orc invasion
In a year or two, 100 newly builded pzh2000 are ready to go to Ukraine :-)) hopefully they will only serve to prevent another attempt of Russia and celebrating Ukraines victory but likely it will make a huge impact in the end-phase of this horrific war.
Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦✌️
not to the point where russian actually appreciate it in their lab...
we need to send 100 Pzhs, 100 leopard 2s and 200 marders
Russia & Ukrainan are the same people , same people one country.
The PzH is definitely a true piece of engineering art. It made a big impression on me when i was in an artillery unit for basic training over ten years ago. ZUU Gleich!
In Kusel?
@@dennisdoe2307 7./ArtLehrRgt 345, dritter Zug, 2009 in meinem Fall
😂 yeah.. the fields of Ukraine prooven this 'engineering art' has a long way to be of any use on the real battlefield. At least we agree it's art and belongs to sit in museum.
@@red.menace0074 Go home Ruski! Your artillery is worse, just like your "only good for cooking the crew" tanks! The Panzerhaubitze 2000 is a very good artillery piece and certainly better than US-SPAGs!
@@red.menace0074 go troll elsewhere vatnik, its proven to be important for the ukranian offensive
Not really montioned is the fact, that the 2000 can fire and correct the ballistic curve in the way, that all three shells are in target the same time.
They did
@@tomkom9762 they went over it rather quickly though.
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@@tomkom9762😢
These days pretty much every modern SPG can do this, so maybe they didn't think it was so important.
05:28 Just to clarify, the PzH only has an auto loader for the shells but the propellant bag still needs to be loaded manually as can be seen at 06:32
its quicker
@@laffytaffy1417 True compared to a fully manual loader, but not the point. The video suggests that the PzH can be operated without loaders on the crew, this is not correct.
What a beast!Remembering our old M109 in the Spanish artillery.Hard to hit anything without a forward observer.Good thing the Ukranian have it to their benefit.Wear and tear of the barrells goes without saying:all those 152 d20 must be all worn out due to constant shelling.I wonder what the life of those d30 and d20 bores is.Great documentary,impressive features.Greetings from Spain.
BTW the blue ammo is only for exercise. The shell will fly and explode like a standard shell, but will a smaller bang and does not much damage when it explodes because it is filled with gypsum.
I like how this thing almost doesn't shake when shooting. Lets it look even more massive.
When you will hit every shot when you shot 3 rounds in 10 seconds, shaking is bad. Special german technic. Have seen this by Rheinmetall factory here in Kassel Germany. It is a huge biest. Hope it does a good job in ukraine.
Pzh can fire up to a range of 80 Km with Vulcano ammo by the way
I think Ukraine actually recieved some of those projectiles too
Pretty sure they did.@@V-V1875-h
@@V-V1875-h They did. The bombardement of snake island was conducted using PzH2000 and vulcano rounds as they were the only ones that had the range. They later added 1 or two Ukrainian prototype guns to that as well.
Next video is how germans leopards easily burn with bunch of ukrainians inside in Zaporozhie fields
tanks saldy often get killed by minefields and artillery, though german tanks have a high survivabillity for crew@@ildarman5708 ukraine also mostly got old a4s with a few old a6 on top.
Such a powerful machine
German World class Engineering helping the Brave Ukrainians fight the Hated Russians.
One of the best Artillery in the World.German PZH 2000 is great 💪👍
And the funny thing ist? She is outdated, because of the new german Artillerie systems.
@Vaeleagle sees that no one makes a better artillery vehicle: fine I'll do it myself
@@Vaeleagle Outdated? Not vs Russia Technology :D
@@markushuber214 Thats for sure. But for western Standards ;)
@@markushuber214 A 14th Century Siege Bombard is cutting edge compared to Russian technology! 😂
Dudes, start using modern (= decimal) measurements.
They like having another figure after the "komma" 😂🇩🇪
Use both measurements. Come on.
naah, why would an american use the system that everyone exept them uses?!
Good video but you forgot to mention a very important type off ammo: Vulcano - precision guided shells like the excalibur but with 1m accuracy and up to 70km reach. Furthermore there is a laser guided variant which can hit moving targets. Last year Ukraine received the normal variant but lately Germany delivered 10 Vulcano laser designators so I guess it is safe to assume that the laser guided variant was deleivered now.
Against vehicles I think BONUS or SMArt155 are a better choice. They are almost identical: Each shell contains 2 self-guided submunitions which search out vehicles and destroy them. Ukraine received both and there are videos of both showing one shell destroying 2 tanks. Both cover an area of around 32.000sqm and can destroy targets moving at up to 50km/h (30mph). The diffeence between BONUS and SMArt155 is that one descends on winglets, the other on tiny parachutes and BONUS uses 2 different IR sensors while SMArt155 one IR and millimeter wave radar.
The beauty is that all the smarts of these are in the shells and can therefore be fired from any NATO-standard 155mm howitzer, just aim it over the area you want and the submunitions do the rest. Truly fire-and-forget. Germany paid roughly half of the cost of 1 M982 Excalibur for each of their SMArt155 shells (they gave €510 million for development and production and got 9000 shells in return with a further 400 being used for testing).
Yeah, the system seems pretty good and effective. A shame there are so few of them on the battlefield. The more the merrier!
ukraine gets 100 in a few years
If the war in Ukraine has proved one thing it's that industrial warfare is still very much with us. There was this perception that mass production weapons were a thing of the past and warfare was going to be small amounts of high tech weapons. Ukraine has shattered that perception and in both the US and Europe there is a significant transfer of resources from expensive high tech systems to cheaper low tech systems.
Biden has put in the order to triple the US production of unguided artillery shells by the end of 2023. Over the past decades the production of unguided artillery shells was wound down as there was the perception they were obsolete in the age of drones. This has proven very false.
beautiful howitzer. I can add that pzh 2000 have spacious comfortable tower. Among Ukrainians there is a joke that it is a hostel on tracks. Designed by people to people
That's a feedback I keep seeing from Ukrainian soldiers who used both Russian and Western combat systems: the Russian systems are disposable (and treat their crews as such), are hard to use and not good, whereas as the Western systems pay attention to ergonomics (less crew fatigue -> higher performance for longer), are far more precise (one gunner mentioned 500m CEP vs 50m CEP for the first round from MSTA-S vs PzH2000) and are designed for crew survivability (mostly tanks and IFVs). Designed by people for people.
You have the PzH2000 and the K9 Thunder as the top tracked self propelled howitzers in the world right now.
K9 is not even close and the K9 autoloader is a hyprcomlicated after thougth added rigth into the crew compartment a dangerous enviorment for the cew with that many free moving heavy metal inside the crew compartment... K9 is not even close to be impressive compared to PzH2000 which was designed from ground up around the autoloader gun magazine system... the only plus for the K9 is the price
There is also the Vulcano ammunition which have a range of approximately 80KM which was also delivered to Ukraine.
Germany once planned to order nearly 3000 pzh2000 before the fall of the soviet union. imagine how many germany could have given ukraine if they had actually ordered that many.
If Germany had ordered that many it would be because the Russians are still standing in Poland and the Warsaw Pact countries are still "safely" under their "benevolent" Soviet rule, including Ukraine. Since 1990 happened, so it happened that there was no reason to have 3000 howitzers anymore.
@@mangalores-x_x You realise that the Warsaw Pact was the only Military Alliance in History, that only attacked it's own members? Prag, Warsaw and Berlin to name a few. It is absolutely no wonder that after the collapse of the Soviet "Union", ex-member states flocked to NATO for protection. The Warsaw pact existed primarily to keep states in line and to suppress democratic movements.
P.S. Not sure if your quotes are meant to show sarcasm. If so, this still stands.
@@mangalores-x_x Now delay the dissolvement of the Soviet Union by a decade, and those 3k howitzers would been standing around today.
If you listen to my own experiences - In Afghanistan the German Bundeswehr wasn't able to use the Panzerhaubitze 2000 because of being unable to be at a war.
The Swedish Military were able to use PH 2000, because of bought by Germany - so at everytime, when the Swedish started to use PH 2000 the taliban RAN!
"unable to be at a war" is BS. The Germans did use the PZH 2000 in Afghanistan. Sweden never operated the PZH 2000, it was the Netherlands.
@@jonny2954
The time I talked about was when politicians in Germany avoided it to speak about Bundeswehr would have been at "war". They talked about humanitarian missions like building schools and drilling wells. That was FACT - but bullshit at all...
But the PzH 2000 was FIRST TIME used by the BW in 2010! Nine years (!) after the BW arrived in Afghanistan. And 'zu Guttenberg'
was the first minister of defense (2009 - 2011) who dared to speak of "war" in Afghanistan.
You are RIGHT: Sweden never used the PzH 2000: it were the Netherlands - but the result with the Taliban was the same! And the FACT that the NL used the German PzH while the German BW ('til 2010) COULDN'T...
Hmmm from what ive heard, yes maintenance is a thing and due to lack of spareparts several vehicles ahd to be cannibalized, however (!) the absurd amount of shells they dump through the cannons is wearing them down much slower than even KMW/KNDS and Rheinmetall anticipated. I remember that they said they were pleasantly surprised to see how far they were off with their estimates on gun maintenance need while Ukraine went nearly 10 times over that and still has operational machines in great shape.
Yeah, the germans label everything with the slightest "error" as broken, so maybe the PzH can withstand more than the one step from 100 to 99 percent
utterly crap claim...all systems are working, at begin there were some problems with overheating air compressor because of wrong use by Ukraine soldiers,,, some PzH2000 in Ukraine passed 20.000 shells on first barrle and still fire accurate ... PzH2000 set completely new durability records for howitzer... and like all german military equipment thanks to modular builld up each repair is counted in minuts not hours or days and there is no supply shortage
I love South Korea's K9 and the Polish Krab but this guy is pretty sick too
This has a faster firing rate
What a beast of a machine.
As Napoleon said, "God is on the side with the best artillery"
Well to be honest… PZ 2000 and Leopard 2 were created to fight Russians 😅
German engineering💥 The Mercedes of howitzers. To be continued with Taurus🧨
never
@@minimax9452 never? What? Which system is better?
@@insolens6536 the question is not wich system is better. germany should never deliver Taurus
@@minimax9452 why shouldnt they?
@@minimax9452 huh? Still waiting for a response.
I'm surprised that no Russians here are praising the performance of this system.😎
You didn’t even mention the best parts, it can shot in all directions without using stabilizers and can even shot while driving max speed of 10km/h
It als can make a 3 Bullets burst shot(like you mentioned) in 10seconds and with change of the height of the barrel, the all hit nearly at the same time at the targeted position, so the enemy gets confused by it and thinks there are 3 PzH200 in one position when in reality there is only one.
Of course the range with this tactic is shortened to 10km maximum, but the benefits out if this are huge.
5 in 1.2 seconds actually
@@zero.Identity nope.
Sorry i worked for them, the max that is possible with precision and the speed of the loader is about 3-4 in 10 seconds, more isn’t possible.
@@nonamerider4953 well sorry to breakt it to you but look for yourself. its not like i dont know that fact
@@zero.Identity you don’t know the facts, sorry, don’t know where you heard this bs.
This is impossible in a PzH2000.
@@zero.Identity how about you look on the website of KMW(you know, the ones i worked for who are producing this) and check the facts on how much 155mm bullets can be shot in which time.
k-9 is targeting these top capability
The maintenance thing is due to the rifled barrel. It can do about 2000 to 4000 shots with precision but then the rifles get worn out and the precision is gone. Can be fixed with changing the barrel what takes some time and is costly. But precision means each round is close to the target. the russians fire too many rounds in the rough direction of the enemy and dont hit much. Mostly due to high numbers of rounds they hit something. Depends also on what you want to achieve with your artillery. Take out enemy devices and bunkers or just cover trenches of the enemy.
Russian doctrine actually has formulas for massive artillery fire: fire X rounds of caliber Y at an area of size Z to achieve a specific amount of destruction. It basically boils down to almost WW1 type massive artillery barrages. Except as we keep seeing in Ukraine: The Russians don't read their own book, apparently only western analysts do.
the PzH2000 set records in durability in Ukraine for howitzer...some systems passed 20.000 rounds fired on first barrle and still deliver with point precission... even Rheinmetal the design and builder of the gun is surprised by that fact.... the factory give a gurantee of 4.000 shells for every barrle
that minivan was literally a speed bump for it
5 shells in air at one round , no way to survife in the target range…30 m exactly at the point vor 48 km…
Great video but you forget a point. If necessary the PZH2000 can be used in direct fire and is like a 2 in 1 vehicle as artillery and tank hunter.
But a so unlikely scenario anyway. It is far away from the frontline so a tank would have to be very sneaky to encounter one.
Ok, but if you are so near to the frontline, every nearby BMP-1 with his 73mm can kill you.
Enjoyed the video, and definitely glad that Bad Boy is helping Ukraine - thanks Germany. But one correction: Artillary remains King, until an attack helicopter shows up.
If enemy, then ADA will have a word with you. We give our "duck hunter" brothers ("The other Redlegs" in US parlance) some grief, but you better believe we want them hanging around to keep you out of our hair. P.S. you better hope our Intel doesn't find your FARP. We will burn it to the ground.
Friendly? We have eyes everywhere. Including yours.
Untill the air force arrive you mean,stealth fighters/bombers/drones and helicopters
If you own the sky,you own the battlefield
if all goes down to shit the PzH 2000 can just send some airburst rounds towards it in direct firing mode
That is what the Gepards are for. Goodbye Helicopter and Drones...
@@GrouchyBear411as much as i like the gepart, the alligator has mor range with rockets than the gepard can cover as AA. To defend against those you need AA with 15+ km coverage to be somewhat safe, 20km AA range to be really safe for helicopter attacks. I think ukraine has a british rocket based mid range AA system on the fields that covers that job. But the gepard can not defend sufficiently against the KA52
Nice to see so much info and so little kremlinliars in the comment section.. Well Done!!
Shou make a video comping it with the M109 and/or M1299 and the K9
Interessant!
Austrian Painters would be proud
The reloading mechanism is scary and impressive at the same time. To know you are able to push 3 projectiles in and out of the machine at that speed knowing all 3 will hit the spot... wow You do not want to be on the receiving end... The fox hole will be redecorated
The multiple round impact was intended to allow the destruction of bridges with a single battery, simultaneously dropping around a tonne of explosives on it.
Channel Säbelzahnmöwe has a series of interviews with the chief constructor of the system well worth the watch.
This system is 30 years old and still one of the best
Ukrainian artillerymen: "uhhhh we've worn out the barrels"
Rheinmetall: "it's supposed to be good for 4,500 rounds give or take, how many have you been firing?"
Ukrainian artillerymen: "well over twenty thousand..."
Rheinmetall: O__O
the hull of PzH2000 isnt deritive from Leopard 2, more like Leopard I (because it was also the plan to reconvert old Leo 1 Hulls).
the PzH hull is a complete new design not from Leo1 or Leo2
What a beautiful machine
Damn... getting simultaniously hit by 3 shells from the same barrel, with smart-guidance from 30 km away. That sounds frightening. :D
Well it's 90s tech. Rheinmetall recently tested a new artillery gun with larger chamber volume and higher pressure barrel in South Africa. They managed 76 km with regular shells.
MRSI doesnt work from that far away, since you change the ballistic trajectory and anmount of charges that can be done from like 16km max, there's info on that on the wiki
@@V-V1875-h Thats what I assumed, so I took a smaller number, but thank you for giving me the actual range. :)
😂😂😂😂 russia declaims more than 1000 destroyed pzh2000
Turned out the Russians renamed 2000 of their old T64 to PZH2000 and sent them to Ukraine.
The Russian complains that any artillery shot fired is pin point. Given that the Ukrainians say that the Russian artillery is not accurate, it’s just amplify the devastation these weapons can do
Fair & balanced..
Das geiste was man an Unterstützung mit in den Kampf mit nehmen kann!!
PZ2000 is still double the cost and maintenance cost and timing is questionable. Ukraine also found out that PZ2000 requires non standard 155mm rounds with less powder not to overheat the barrel. PZ2000 also doesn't have K10 auto loader for faster reload in combat environment.
The real king of the world's self-propelled artillery is South Korea's K9 Thunder!
Would be cool to build the Ratte but yeah that is sick!
Yeah.... but DOES IT WORK ???
Yes
The range on modern artillery is mind-blowing 40 km holy shit
The Germans are currently developing a howitzer with a standard range of 70 km. With base bleed or rocket assist that is more than 100 km.
What the hell is a short ton?
Gut gesprochen.❤
what the hell are short tons?
How do you know all this?
Germany always has gone all out these Tanks and howitzers are really cool
Rheinmetall makes quality weaponry!
Naming a unit price doesn't make sense. Unit price is highly variable, depending on the negotiated package deal.
Yes, the price of ANYTHING depends on the amount of systems you want to buy, just look at the F-35 and how Its total price was lowered by all the other nations that wanted one
SORRY I DONT GET IT. IS IT A TOWED OR MOBILE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT?
This was near space-age technology 20 years ago, when it came out. Not quite enough have been built, though...
actually it even "can" shoot 20 shoots in a minute. There still is even a video of 1997 which you can find here at youtube which shows exactly this. it allready was able to do that even in the first phase long before all this later updates.
It doesn't matter what it "can" do, if you then need maintenance. There's a reason they don't do it in practice.
@@Nagilum3 it "does" matter what it "can" do. there always are situations in which you rather prefer to do what i can do instead of looking at a long time endurance efficiency statistic. actually this should be obvious, i dont know why somebody has to explain something like that to you. the reason why they "advice" always a slightly lesser use than what a system actually can do is because the endurace of the barrel is slightly worse but doing that for 1 minute doesnt make you need maintance or overheat the barrel xd actually even the extremely fast normal rate of fire is just for the german army if there is no war you care about the last few % of endurance enhacement and cost reduction. than it doesnt make a differnce. if there is a war and counterartillery fire you probably rather care about the lesser chance to get hit and loose, system and people
Not much more than Bandkanon 1 from the 60’s with 15 rounds in 45 sec according to specs.
It can't shoot 20 round per minute. That would be a reloadtime of 3 seconds. No artillery system can do that. I also saw the video you mentioned. It has a sustained firerate of 12 rounds per minute und 20 rounds in 1:49 min.
@@MyGFIsMaria It can't because the bandkanon only has a 14 round magazin
A video about PzH2000 shows awful often the Paladin SPG 0:49
the smile at @04:18 from the dude in the back of the engine :D
What is the ball he is putting in after the shell?
It's the propelling charge
Missed the german pronounciation in this Video, our beloved Panzerhaubitze 2000🥳😅
the ramge is right if you take l39 nato standard ammo but if you take the 155mm l52 ammo you can reach up to 72km with the south african vlap in L52 instead of L39. So far was only nato standard tested on the pzh2000 so it's maximum range with them is 52km but with the L52 shells it can reach further (72km)
actually its "die Panzerhaubitze" so its female, NOT MALE.
never knew there was something like a HEEEE shell, dang its speelled H E and not heee like on he-man
It's actually _die_ PzH 2000, which means that _she_ is the _queen_ of artillery... which is only fair: a king could never shoot so much and in such rapid succession. ;-)
Bruh.
oh no, you say this 155mm round is destroying things ?!
dear god no who would think of that, how horrible
17 mil a piece..that really IS a truely hefty price tag.. ouch.
Good howitzer, but burns like the rest.
It's at 0 losses currently lol
Use metric.
PzH 2000 is good,but , KOR/PL Crabs/Krabs are exceptional. Lighter, less breakdowns,different types of ammunition can be used.
Ukraine thinks different. Krabs had far higher losses than the PZH 2000, 18 out of 72 delivered Krabs have been destroyed so far, that's about 1/4th. PZH 2000 losses still stand at 0. This is also reflected in Ukraines orders, only 60 Krabs compared to 100 PZH 2000 and an additional 18 RCH 155 (PZH 2000 successor).
Mainly due to the fact of the PZH 2000 set up and deploy times being shorter making it much better at shoot and scoot maneuvers.
Krab = scrap
There was a reason why it doesn't have a cat name but I forgot why
They couldn't agree on a name. No joke.
I'm pretty sure they do that by firing at them, but I could be wrong, correct me if needed.
Beast
Why didn't he change 76mm smoke canisters or 7.62mm bullets to hogsheads per furlong?
I was in the first class "iam reamember" the first ones in action
PzH 2000 Gift deliver! It delivers happiness
I mean where's the cries of sadness when the Ruzzians receive it?!
You see? there's none!
HAPPINESS!
Just like ancestors ww1 ww2 carries black cross to take a last breath in foreign soil. Happiness? must be kid. War is exciting business.
@@dugzamilza5212 And if something wears out there, brave Ukrainian hands have been too busy shooting to kick the Russian-Nazis out of the country. Slava Ukraina!
Not a single PzH 2000 has been destroyed in Ukraine so far. Meanwhile a dozen American produced M109's and polish produced Krab systems have already been destroyed by Russian Lancet drones
And the PzH 2000 has destroyed the most Russian targets in Ukraine so far, compared to all the other Western artillery systems delivered so far. And it still keeps hitting more and more every day
Do you have any source for that claims? I am interested for the numbers
maybe bc it´s harder to hit 14 pzh 2000 than 76 AHS krab, they can´t be destroyed so easy bc there aren´t as many, this are just numbers, and i don´t beliive pzh 2000 has most confirmed targets destroyed
@@kaspi957nah, more the fact that the PzH2000 moves directly after it made it’s shot and will shoot from different positions on the same target pretty precise.
Also there are 20 of them in the Ukraine.
It also can shoot while moving up to 10km/h and got 60 Rounds in it’s magazine, so you have plenty of options how to use it and be effective af with it.
@@kaspi957 One PzH 2000 was hit by a Lancet drone but it survived the hit and got only damaged, thanks to its superior roof armor protection that stopped the Lancet drone. This is one of many unique features that only the PzH has
@@TheKamiran85 his source of these numbers is his German belief that everything German is superior to whatever the untermensch produced. In reality, the Pzh2000 is a great gun for counter-insurgency missions and it has the best armour of all SPGs, but is very prone to failure in a full-scale war. At some point, 2/3 of all PzH2000 were being repaired in Lithuania as a result of malfunctions. Also, it's physically impossible for 14 Pzh to have destroyed more targets than the hundreds of M109s, dozens of Krabs and hundreds of Soviet-vintage guns. But, again, he's German so he will believe anything as long as it confirms his beliefs in his country's superiority.
Actually it is "die Panzerhaubitze", i.e. its more a Queen than a King
@@delinquenter
Are you tripping? Definitely haven't been in the military. Artillery has been female since we first strapped cannons on horse drawn carriages. And the same is true for ships.
0:21 0:26 0:50 2:13 Those are M109s, not the Pzh2000.
What about the new SK artillery system?
Almost manages to be as good as the PZH 2000, just 20 years too late.
@jonny2954 doesn't it have a faster reloading and firing time then the PZH?
What is SK artillery system. Can't find anything. But RCH 155 is now King
@@alexmk7199 SK stands for South Korea. Their new K9A2 manages to have almost comparable stats to the PZH 2000, just 20 years later. Just shows how far ahead KMW and RHM were and still are. Germany is currently developing a incrased chamber volume gun that has 80 km range for regular projectiles, opposed to the currently usual 30 to 40. Also 100+ for base bleed instead of the usual 50-60 km.
@@alexmk7199 Task & Purpose did a video on it
Good piece of equipment. But too few in Ukraine.
0:50 M109 Paladin cameo appearance
Gustav was the best howizer at all times cal. 800mm
no it was shit
Schwerer Gustav
How? Hardly
BUT it is "fragile" when a rate of fire is intense. Ukrainian experience proved that. I am not sure germans are insulted though :) for sure they will improve it. Apart of that extremely good howitzer!
Patriot system costs 1billion.
S400 russian. Costs 500million. That's 50 units of pz 2000 for this price.
Never heard of "short ton" before. Who the heck uses that unit?
Murcia f**k yeah
Yeah I don't know that gibberish to me too in EU xD
next video: how lancet destroys PzH 2000
waiting for it.
where is it?
oh, doesn´t exist?
continue coping.
We have proof of a PzH2000 getting a direct hit by a lancet...
But it's not a Russian garbage truck, so it shrugged it off and kept functioning. Haven't lost a single one so far.
Imperial units are just strange....why not convert already!