New Archer Howitzer for the British Army being transported 🪖

Watch the new British Army ARCHER Mobile Howitzer 6x6 arrive in the UK by ship, and two being transported by Kings Heavy Haulage in Hampshire.
Per the British Army website, ARCHER Mobile Howitzer 6x6 is based on the Bofors FH77. It is the new self-propelled Howitzer for the British Army, consisting of a 155 mm 52-calibre gun on a 6x6 articulated vehicle. It can fire up to 50km away.
Read more about the type: www.army.mod.uk/equipment/arc...
The new army vehicle has been arriving at the Marchwood Military Port in Hampshire from Sweden, to fill the gap left by the AS90s being donated to Ukraine.
Read more about Archer's arrival at Marchwood beginning in 2023: www.army.mod.uk/news-and-even...
Recorded: 2024
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[@CobraEmergency]

Read more about Archer's arrival at Marchwood beginning in 2023: www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2023/10/british-army-s-first-archer-gun-has-arrived-on-uk-soil/

[@MidnightCaller1000]

You Are Welcome! Greetings from the Swedes!

[@muckle8]

Yep Volvo adt underpinnings

[@gusgone4527]

Nice wheeled artillery system my Nordic friends. Sits well alongside your BAE CV90 based family of vehicles. Which the British Army should adopt to replace Warrior. BTW welcome to NATO.

[@RonnN-gf8tm]

Right On Cobra... checking it out again here before the long shift.. enjoy the evening my friend - Lot-3

[@Ravemastergeneral-fn1mc]

Great work Cobra.

[@kdenyer1]

There got to have a lot more than one.😊

[@MrIwan18]

Mighty beasts💪🏽

[@panpanjedi]

Super video !! Beau boulot...

[@remigijuspocevicius7965]

good guns is very quolity

[@T_WolvesOnTop]

how does he know when these things are coming and when the ship is coming

[@Ravemastergeneral-fn1mc]

Send it !

[@user-qd6nn6sj5v]

And right now the US Army is evaluating the Archer system for use to replace the M109 artillery system

[@gusgone4527]

They could do much worse. It's an excellent system. Just don't expect it to replaced a tracked artillery. Supplement - oh yes and then some! But not replace.

[@user-qd6nn6sj5v]

@@gusgone4527 what I like about the Archer system the most is the rapid fire capability and fast reload

[@gusgone4527]

@@user-qd6nn6sj5v Me too! Have you seen it working up close? It has been well thought out with cleverly designed ergonomics. (Clever resupply system for the onboard magazines too) Clearly a gunners dream for the modern NBC shoot and scoot battlefield. But .. The Royal Artillery will be asked to use it as a replacement for AS90 our M117 equivalent. They will be expected to keep pace with Challenger 3 or whatever MBT comes next and fully tracked heavy infantry units. It will never do that. Don't get me wrong, I love the Archer for what it can do. It's perfect for supporting the Boxer based quick reaction rapid/road deployed infantry units. Makes me wish I was still serving and learning how to use it to the max. On the new fully integrated digital battle space.

[@johnmontague9562]

I'd love to know how you get your information and timings 🇬🇧👍

[@thecurlew7403]

It's about the only thing uk has that's not clapped out😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@user-fz7de4cz4w]

Marchwood Military Port I was Based there as a Port Operator.

[@RonnN-gf8tm]

Am I seeing this right Cobra?? Is that a One-man cab truck on these 70 ton gooseneck floats??

[@kristiangoransson6104]

If you’re asking about the crew space on the Archer it holds a crew of four. On the first prototype, I got to see it in action during my conscription in 1997 they had to exit and manually load. It’s crazy how long this system was in development but I’m not sure if it was actively worked on all those years

[@matthewboyall5965]

Thought we were getting archer but with the rheinmetal cab???

[@zoom5024]

Not likely. Sweden ordered 48 with the rheinmetal cab last year and they are being made now, deliveries will start 2025. You got these ones from our storage as a stop gap. And you have choosen another SPG for your longterm replacement if im not mistaken.

[@regregan6852]

Getting boxer RCH155.

[@jazzer111]

show it on back truck motorway last week wondered what it was now know

[@RonnN-gf8tm]

Quebec express!!??? You in Canada Cobra?? I hope so...Right On nice filming Bro!!

[@simonallen6427]

That's a first, i didn't know ships had reversing alarms!!

[@das5813]

1 blast. I have my engines on. 2 blasts. I have engaged forward propulsion. 3 blasts. I am reversing.

[@gusgone4527]

How many hundreds of Archers are we buying and which tracked system have we chosen to replace AS90? Let me sit down and strap in for the answer.

[@grahamcrichton9177]

with uk finance in sad state thanks to the tories probably uk buy about 2 lol

[@regregan6852]

Only 14 archers. They've actually decided on boxer RCH 155s.

[@lawrencew3703]

Is there not something missing

[@vicolin6126]

If you mean the barrel, it is neatly tucked away during transport inside the chassis. The Archer is basically almost fully automated in its setup. Go watch a video of it in action and you will understand.

[@Pete68T]

Looks Like a Volvo 6x6 Dumper Truck With Gun Mounted on That Chassis,Should be Quite Cheap ?14 on Order and Another Possible 10,Its Just a Stop Gap Untill bigger Guns Come To Replace Those We Gave Away.

[@timmurphy5541]

$4.5 million each apparently. The replacement RCH 155 doesn't seem to be bigger - its based on a boxer shell and will be about EUR 12 million - so we'll obviously get 1/2 as many as we could. IMO that sounds like a terrible idea - but the new gun is going to be air transportable so we'll be able to plonk a couple of them into the next foreign adventure.

[@davebowman6497]

"until bigger guns come" : The Archer system in the video is 155 mm / L52. Are you saying the UK is planning for getting artillery with larger caliber than that? The Archer sets up in 30 seconds from rolling to ready-to-fire, shoots 3 rounds in 15 seconds, 20 rounds (a full magazine) in 2 minutes. From last shell to moving again ("shoot and scoot") is 30 seconds. Autoloader magazine is replenished in 10 minutes.

[@ron9516]

@@timmurphy5541 Wouldn't hold your breath on the RCH-155, appetite seems to be for the K9 Thunder (if we go for tracked) or Archer on a RMMV chassis (if we go wheeled)

[@timmurphy5541]

@@ron9516 I read somewhere that it was already decided but I am happy to be corrected. I think Archer seems good. The Korean one is good too. I'd be sort of amused if we picked the polish crab since it's apparently a kind of updated as-90.

[@kurtsoderberg]

Those We Gave Away, are 20-century tech, what you get is the latest bang for your pound. nearly at cost.

[@Lyle-In-NO]

Watch THE arrival of THE archer? Just one? All this hoopla over one?

[@JamesSmith-so1he]

There were at least 2!

[@henrykuppens9097]

It's a small army. 😅

[@Green-Olle]

That Howitzer is badass, but why UK needs it? Training Ukraine I guess..

[@kristofferhellstrom]

The UK gave away many of it's AS90s to Ukraine so these are filling the gap.

[@Colin-Fenix]

What’s next? A video showing paint dry?

[@southwestsweden9918]

Thax great film 👍👍Swedish steel. I hope the destination is Ukraine 🇺🇦 The Archer self-propelled artillery system is manufactured by Bofors in Karlskoga Sweden 🇸🇪 🇺🇦

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

With nobody to operate it😂

[@Ubique2927]

It is demoralising that the country that produced the best guns and systems in the world has had to resort to importing artillery.

[@timmurphy5541]

No investment. Cannot be proud if one doesn't spend the money. The best gun the UK has made recently was for the US and we didn't even buy any of them.

[@ron9516]

The problem is that any British manufacturer who wants to produce a piece of equipment (outside of ships) needs to be able to sell onto the world market as well as to the British forces and at the moment no one seems to want to buy.

[@timmurphy5541]

@@ron9516 we make parts of the boxer which the RCH is based on. I would hope we can make barrels. I don't think in the long run that we want a unique solution - we want to share spares, training, ammunition etc. we just need to be able to make the consumables to have some freedom.

[@yeahbutytho126]

We need steel to make anything. Not the recycled steel either.

[@vicolin6126]

Well, Sweden also has a loooong tradition of producing very good weapons systems, so the Archer will be a fine addition to the British army. Remember that this Archer-system is mean for shoot-n-sscoot tactics, not suppression (low ammo count). It is mainly for counter-artillery use and it does this so well that the Ukrainians (who also got a few of these) called it sniper-artillery.

[@bonnieandersson9180]

!!!!???

[@welly2t]

why the heavy lift unit and support. cost a fortune. no reason..

[@regregan6852]

Does seem abit pointless transporting a wheeled vehicle imo.

[@MrSzwarz]

Just one howitzer?! Shame Brits!