Edited to add: This is described as a T90. One single hit and looks artillery since there is no missile trail and the guys were not in movement? Nothing alive came out - Please, do not die like this for Putin!
https://youtu.be/fPyHkrRDHgg?t=8Ukraine will almost certainly get Western precision-guided rounds as part of the package. The American-developed M982 and M982A1 Excalibur artillery shells can home in on a set of GPS coordinates, and unlike artillery of the past, can hit a target with the first round. Excalibur is so precise, the U.S. Army claims, it will hit within two meters of the target “regardless of range.”
However, it is a completely different thing how the tanks react to a hit. At first, they are unlikely to know if it is artillery, a drone, an MANPAD or a Stugna-P or even a land mine. However, no matter what it is, the only thing that is clearly wrong is to sit in there. Tactical Cannon Fodder sent there by a soulless leadership.
These are very expensive. Not sure what the advantage is over e.g. Switchblade (speed?) but I thought it would be rare to see Excaliburs in action, maybe against juicy target like radars.
The switchblade is very cheap true, and you got a point on the Excalibur (still the cost is 1/20 of an average main battle tank and the kill is 99.9% certain in such an open terrain). The 300 cannot deal with a proper tank / APC and I do not know if UKR got the 600's. Even the 600 may not give full certainty of kill when hitting a modern main battletank. Also, their flight time is limited, so they are to be used when there is certainty of finding a target within their range (artillery would normally have more range). Lastly, they are slow.
To be honest, the simplest explanation may be that artillery was there and switchblades were not. I would like to see an weapons analyst take a good look at this video, I guess it will happen at some point.
100 km? Are you sure? Anyway, yes these are modern artillery and there seems to be very good geoloc passed to them. Now that I think of it, they may have used
NATO guided shells, specific for this smaller targets. That would explain the amazing precision. They do not look like the shells that can actually kill 2 tanks with one round.
One of my local newspaper portals claims that this is possible with a projectile BAE MS-SGP. Translated with GT.
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Moreover, 100 km can be achieved with the new BAE MS-SGP projectile (Multi Service-Standard Guided Projectile). The first version of the M777 howitzer had only an optical, and the M777A1 version a digital fire control system. The latest version of the M777A2 has upgraded software so it can fire Excalibur missiles and has been in constant use since 2007.
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It may be interesting to note that there is speculation that the total number of howitzers is about 90, with as many as 144 000 missiles/rounds. If each howitzer had only 2 successful hits each week, it's not hard to calculate what that means on a monthly basis.
So in essence the howis can fire guided missiles and reach 100 km.... interesting. By taking a look at the current map, Kherson is 100% in that range from Mykolaiv. In Russian territory Belgorod is fully in range for Kharkiv. Even less sophisticated stuff could reach the 50km between the border and Belgorod. A pity the missile launching positions in Crimea are not in that range.
Ukraine will almost certainly get Western precision-guided rounds as part of the package. The American-developed M982 and M982A1 Excalibur artillery shells can home in on a set of GPS coordinates, and unlike artillery of the past, can hit a target with the first round. Excalibur is so precise, the U.S. Army claims, it will hit within two meters of the target “regardless of range.”
However, it is a completely different thing how the tanks react to a hit. At first, they are unlikely to know if it is artillery, a drone, an MANPAD or a Stugna-P or even a land mine. However, no matter what it is, the only thing that is clearly wrong is to sit in there. Tactical Cannon Fodder sent there by a soulless leadership.
These are very expensive. Not sure what the advantage is over e.g. Switchblade (speed?) but I thought it would be rare to see Excaliburs in action, maybe against juicy target like radars.
Especially combating T72's, where the crew is practically sitting right on their ammo. These could be fought easily and on the cheap using older, unguided anti-tank-weapons. They need closer distance, though, which is not the most favourite in face of an army that tries to break the world record in war crimes.
The 72's are "easy" to kill compared to others, but they are tanks. If you see them, they see you. There is an interview with the guy that was with Waly the Canadian sniper that speaks about tanks being spotted but out of range of Javs and actually them being spotted by a tank and shot at.
Javs are great for intimidation (keeping Russ tank officers inside their turrets and thus less "aware"), for urban warfare and to provide infantry with some means of defence against armour. Older AT's... that is a bit of a last resource in open field.