How ramjets may change the role of artillery on the battlefield

I can see it having a place, but the major advantage of artillery is that shells are relatively cheap.

When I did my military service 25 years ago, we had guns in our not so advanced army that could fire ordinary shells 40+ km. So the 20-22 km range of conventional artillery is heavily underestimated.

Two issues with this. The obvious one is that the engine will take up a large percentage of the volume that would otherwise be the warhead, reducing the blast effect unless the projectile is made larger. Not quite so obvious is a significant loss of accuracy. A simple unguided artillery shell follows the laws of physics in it's trajectory without inserting any of it's own forces. Introducing a motor introduces all sorts of variables that can alter the trajectory, even slight variations in the level or direction of thrust will case large errors in the point of impact. The only way to get around this is to make it guided, i.e. to give the thing a seeker head and articulating fins to steer it. With the entire front end taken up by an air intake I don't see where you could mount a seeker.

The whole concept of artillery involves a shell that is cheap enough so that you can hit the enemy on and on. If the cost is high it will not be deployed, like the excalibur rounds....

we fire the whole shell, that's more than 65% more shell for shell.

I've seen videos where robots try to mimic human voice - this one is the first I've seen a human trying to talk like a robot.

Nammo is a massive innovator in armaments. I am glad they are on our side.

imagine dying to an artillery round with comic sans written on it haha

Wake me up when you can give the moon a black eye with it.

Why does everything sound like a question when he talks?

These ramjet artillery shells would be a good testing ground in Ukraine. The Kerch bridge would be an awesome target to practice the accuracy of this shell.

Guided artillery projectiles are extremely expensive. For example, one M982 Excalibur artillery shell costs $112,800. If you combine electronics that can withstand extreme g forces with ramjet plumbing, the entire projectile will cost about $200,000. Big artillery projectiles can be detected with radars. If the projectile flies for one minute at high altitude, everyone knows where (+-1km) it will fall. If you try to hit a tank with such projectile, the tank drives into a forest and the projectile cannot find it.

So a long range artillery round with no payload. That sounds useful.

4:55 We need to be able to destroy Maersk containers at maximum distance.

This Norwegian-Brittish accent mix is really breaking my ear.

I like that this company leaves the comments open unlike rehienmettals videos.

The Germans were Testing them in WW2 known as the Trommsdorf Geschoss after its inventor wolf Trommsdorf.

ok, we confirm our shells have reached into enemy territory. now how can we send the explosives left behind in our base ?

Interesting technique. Look forward to hear more about it and see which gab it will fill up.

The most interesting part here is probably, that ramjets are hard to develop today but in principle they are relatively simple (number of parts, number of moving parts etc.), especially if they have to keep one constant speed. So they might become relatively cheap compared to a rocket with the same reach. And since they are smaller and can be used with existing howitzers they might become cost effective.