How far is the limit range of artillery? What is the basis?

Artillery refers to all kinds of artillery, including ordinary ground artillery, anti-tank artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, tank artillery, space machine guns and mortars. The range of most artillery is between 30 km and 50 km, which is also the best range of artillery in modern warfare. Of course, the range limit of artillery far exceeds 50 kilometers. As long as there is corresponding demand, it is not a problem for the gun to reach a range of several hundred kilometers.

100 years ago, the Germans had developed a Paris cannon with a range of more than 100 km. The shape of this cannon is very huge, and the barrel length reaches 36 meters. Because the Germans bombed Paris, France with this kind of cannon, the Paris cannon got its name. 100 years ago, the range of artillery can already exceed 100 km, and it is not a technical problem for modern artillery to exceed 100 km. Only in modern wars, the existence of this kind of ultra-long-range cannon is of little significance, so not many countries have developed this kind of cannon.

The increase of gun range will inevitably lead to the increase of gun use cost. For example, it is equipped on the American Zumwalt class destroyer? Advanced naval gun system? , is a kind of ultra-long-range artillery with excellent performance and very expensive price. ? Advanced naval gun system? It is the most advanced artillery in the world today. This kind of gun has a range of 185 km, and has precise guidance capability. The attack error is less than 50 meters, and the combat performance is almost equivalent to a short-range cruise missile.

At the same time, the advanced artillery system equipped on the destroyer of zumwalt is also very expensive. ? Advanced naval gun system? The price of a shell is as high as $30,000. If zumwalt-class cruisers are attacked by enemy motorboats in battle, the cost of launching shells by destroyers is even higher than the cost of manufacturing motorboats by the other side. Equipped from a destroyer in zumwalt? Advanced artillery system? It can also be seen that it is not difficult to manufacture ultra-long-range artillery, but it is not easy to afford such artillery.

Let's give a simple example. Fighting a battle, both sides consume100000 shells. If the cost of a shell is $30,000, then the cost of 654.38+10,000 shells is $3 billion, which is beyond the affordability of ordinary countries. From the cost point of view, ultra-long-range artillery is not suitable for a large number of equipment. Moreover, the long range of artillery will also conflict with the role of short-range missiles and rockets, which is not obvious to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, but will increase a lot of costs invisibly.

Therefore, the range of mainstream ground artillery is still between 30 and 50 kilometers, and the range of some long-range artillery can exceed 100 kilometers. However, these guns are generally equipped on warships and are not suitable for large-scale use by the army.