[dabigv13]

The way the administration is presenting it is as a stopgap solution while unitary warhead 155mm ammo production ramps up, but certainly these will be very useful for killing entrenched Russians. 

Might require a bit of a learning curve for the Ukrainian troops though, as they are not GPS guided, and as they are older munitions that US troops do not even train with, it may be that an M777 gun has never even fired one of these shells.

I can confirm that the M777 has fired DPICM. The vast majority of 155 mm shells fired by Ukraine are not GPS guided. Only Excalibur ones are. There is a firing table forDPICM, just like there is for HE. No training issuest all.

Good to know; one of the articles I was reading about DPICM mentioned that in Gulf War, the artillerymen didn't use many because they required more manual calculation and they hadn't used them in training, but perhaps that was incorrect or just old.

This article I just read today was a good summary of DPICM rounds US may be providing and cluster munitions and dud rates more broadly.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/militar...munitions/

[dabigv13]

The way the administration is presenting it is as a stopgap solution while unitary warhead 155mm ammo production ramps up, but certainly these will be very useful for killing entrenched Russians. 

Might require a bit of a learning curve for the Ukrainian troops though, as they are not GPS guided, and as they are older munitions that US troops do not even train with, it may be that an M777 gun has never even fired one of these shells.

I can confirm that the M777 has fired DPICM. The vast majority of 155 mm shells fired by Ukraine are not GPS guided. Only Excalibur ones are. There is a firing table forDPICM, just like there is for HE. No training issuest all.

Good to know; one of the articles I was reading about DPICM mentioned that in Gulf War, the artillerymen didn't use many because they required more manual calculation and they hadn't used them in training, but perhaps that was incorrect or just old.

This article I just read today was a good summary of DPICM rounds US may be providing and cluster munitions and dud rates more broadly.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/militar...munitions/