![]() Projectiles can reach out to 19 miles with rocket-assist. Rate-of-fire is approximately six rounds maximum with sustained fire in the 2 rpm range and burst fire (over a 20 second span) in the 3 rpm range. The mounting hardware for the main gun allows for an elevation span of -5 to +75 degrees with full 360-degree traversal. A 7.62mm General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) is carried on the turret roof for local defense as are smoke grenade dischargers.© An all-modern ballistics computer is also featured. This provides for a semi-automatic loading action which helps to reduce crew fatigue in action and maintain a reasonable rate-of-fire. The gun is supported through an automatic interrupted screw design with an electronic rammer in play. Additional crew - the commander, gunner, and loader - are seated in the boxy turret structure mounting the 155mm NATO-compatible main gun (with double-baffled muzzle brake). Detroit diesel electronic fire commander driver#The hull contains the engine at front-right with the driver at front-left. It features a multi-wheeled track-over-wheel arrangement seeing seven double-tired road wheels to a hull side with the drive sprocket at front and track idler at rear. As a result an indigenous approach was taken.īy all accounts, the SSPH 1 is a largely conventional Self-Propelled Howitzer (SPH). The SSPH 1 was developed after a defense review of existing foreign systems then available - all of the frontrunners being capable in their own right but lacking certain qualities required by the Singapore Army. ![]() Design work began in 1996 and also involved the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) as well as input from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) itself with adoption of the vehicle announced in 2002 and formal introduction coming in 2004. ![]() ![]() Singapore Technologies Kinetics (ST Kinetics) has designed the SSPH 1 "Primus" (Singapore Self-Propelled Howitzer 1) to fulfill a Singapore Army requirement. ![]()
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