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  • This will be for both the 127/54 & 127/64 guns, as well as the 76mm right?

  • Soon this projectile will be employed by the 76 mm blindo "Draco" an anti-aircraft

    developed on the "Centauro B-1" chassis on specific of Esercito Italiano.

  • VULCANO is on testing.

    the version are 3

    OTO MELARA VULCANO ER,

    OTO MELARA VULCANO LR

    OTO MELARA VULCANO LR IMO/GPS

  • Vulcano IS Joint venture Italy - holland for tanks PZ 2000 and 127/55 gun ship!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Actually is an italian project by italian firm oto melara... Dutch pays some of research cost...

  • Interessante

  • 100km range is a bit exaggeration no? i mean the M777 can hit a target at more 40km with Excalibur (80,000$ each rounds), and Vulcano said they can hit a target at 90-100km with incredible precision...is a bit exaggeration, you can hit a target with 1-10m precision...and that is with UAV and Satelite+GPS and many correction before shoot a rounds.

    I don't said is a bullshit system i just don't believe they can hit a target at more 100km with incredible accuracy.

  • Against a static target with favorable weather, it can well be the 100km range. The range will drop drastically against a moving target, which the situation requires more maneuverability from the round for trajectory adjustments to ensure a hit. Also with the low velocity of the round, it is of questionable efficiency against major ships with modern AAW systems or SAM batteries too.

  • Questionable against AAW or SAM? What? In such a situation, don't you think the gun could throw more shells at a combatant that said combatant is carrying SAMs?

  • Saturation attack is all good, but one have to consider the survivability of a artillery battery rapid firing large salvos in short amount of time. If I remember correctly, in 1991 Gulf War, it was estimated that Iraq front line artillery units have about 5-10 minutes to relocate before counter-artillery bombardment.

  • We're talking about a naval situation, though. And frankly, hardly any ship will waste SAMs on enemy artillery shells. Not to mention they still come in at a higher rate than the SAM launchers on most ships can respond to.

  • @Magni56

    I see your point. It will be an interesting scenario.

  • Don't think in traditional artillery. You don't even need to aim, only to put the projectile on air. To put it on short words, imagine a guided bomb launched by a howitzer, it's a guided round whose fins and aerodinamics increase the range, avoiding detection because there's not a traditional balistic trajectory.

  • This is not an exaggeration because Vulcano round actually glides after reaching apogee. Also, it is a sub-calibre round which means high muzzle velocity and low drag (and of course, less bursting charge).

  • nice vid, it is just that, a vid.

    Fancy graphics, nothing more. ;)

  • best war technology from germans and italians.

  • well the pzh2000 is from germany, the ammo purely from oto melara.

    I hope we will acquire it.

  • @EXITUS01 100% Italian not german not holand

    it will be used into german f125 class and holland navy

  • amazing what mankind does for war

  • bestia ke roba

  • The project vulcano is a consortium of Spain and Italy

  • Italian and German weaponry and the Eurotiger.

    I didn't know that they would be configuring the vulcano for the pzh2000, the americans are working on something similar the ags for the DDX 1000.

  • dang this is awesome technology

  • 100km range just by reorienting the projectile to maximise glide. Spiffy.

  • Dang!

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