Thread by @pati_marins64

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Is the artillery accuracy so important?

If we are talking about conventional shells, accuracy isn't so important because it's compensated by the blast radius of indirect fire.
A 155mm or 152mm shell has a kill radius of 50m/850m2 + 100m/1900m2 of injury radius.

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Most of the chelling deaths are caused by Blast Brain Injury or other injuries in abdomen and other areas, known as the Blast shock. But depending of the shell, these deaths and injuries are caused by Shrapnel. (fragmentation)

nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

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A Conventional 152/155mm shell produce a crater of 1.2-1.8m due to shell explosion.
In some cases the ammo is old and didn't explode. See the holes on the green field. The ones without light around are failed shells. Russia has maybe 35-55% failing rate. It's really dangerous

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Bellow are two pictures of indirect fire from 30m. One has fragmentation shell and the other just the blast shock. See as the Blast shock destroyed the tank.
That's why shells don't need to be exactly accurate.
A Conventional shell from 20km-40km can have a CEP of 350m.

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Ukr still has 70% of its 152mm and some have modern Fire control systems, what improve the accuracy around 10-20% depending of weather.
Others 400 are 155mm, a bit more accurate, but it doesn't change too much because the improvement keep inside the blast radius.

Note:

The Ukrainian question isn't the accuracy, but how can the allies produce enough ammo. Actually the allies can't produce enough ammo for 300 arties firing daily 15k rounds.
This is why Ukraine need guided ammo and more missiles.
See the advantages of guided ammo.