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Originally Posted by Shipwreck
For instance, this technical report (where I got the ToT figures I quoted earlier from) :
"Single Gun, Multiple Round, Time-on-Target Capability for Advanced Towed Artillery Cannon" by Timothy M. Kogler, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, March 1995 (ref. ARL-MR-225) :
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I believe that proved to be a unrealistic standard. Especially since they want all the new toys to have autoloaders.
As I said BAE is currently testing to a 4 sec standard.
I think this was one of those "Liquid propellant/automated fire? never obtainable goals for Crusader.
edit,
The 15 sec was one that France used in the late 90s to declare that they had a MRSI capable howitzer after the Germans started using MRSI as a selling point for their PZH2000s.