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M220 Self-Propelled Howitzer

585 WolfeYankee  4.0 years ago
Auto Credit Based on GhostOfKyiv's Artillery Challenge

History:

The M220 Self-Propelled Howitzer is a proposed design made to replace the U.S. Military’s current Self-Propelled Howitzer, the M109. The M220 has numerous upgrades over the M109. The cannon on the M220 is a 200mm instead of the M109’s 155mm. The driver also uses a camera that has thermal and night vision to see instead of using a vision port. It weighs more or less the same as the M109 and has wheels instead of tracks. This means it can go faster on hard surfaces and doesnt damage roads when driving over them. The Military did not choose to buy this vehicle and decided to add upgrades to the current M109 as it would be more expensive to buy new vehicles that don’t offer much over the current vehicle than just adding upgrades to them.

Armament:

1x 200mm Cannon with HE rounds.
1x 12.7x99mm NATO M3 Browning Machine Gun
6x Grenade Launchers (Smoke rounds)

Specs:

Top Speed: 185 Km/h

4 Wheel Steering

Fully Traversable Turret

55 degree elevation and a ~3-4 degree depression

Has 6 outriggers

Controls:

AG1: Starts the engine
AG3 Lights
AG8(Activated by default): Turret and gun control
Landing Gear: Deploy outriggers

Notes:

I strongly recommend deploying the outrigger when firing.

It tends to flip when turning sharply at around 74 Km/h so just turn slowly. If you do flip, just use the turret and gun to flip yourself back up.

The gun has quite a bit of recoil so whenever the outriggers are deployed, the vehicle moves a bit but when they aren’t, the vehicle moves back.

The winch doesn’t do anything.

Afterword:

This was made for a challenge and it has to be mobile friendly so it has a low part count. Might make a higher part count later in the future.

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Predecessor Artillery Challenge
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 10.5ft (3.2m)
  • Length 36.9ft (11.2m)
  • Height 20.2ft (6.2m)
  • Empty Weight 36,431lbs (16,525kg)
  • Loaded Weight 54,156lbs (24,565kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading N/A
  • Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
  • Drag Points 10378

Parts

  • Number of Parts 157
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 821