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Key facts
- Type
- Self-propelled howitzer
- Place of origin
- Germany
- In service
- 1998–present
- Used by
- See Operators
- Wars
- War in Afghanistan Russo-Ukrainian War Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Designed
- 1987–1995
- Unit cost
- € 17 million (2022)
- Produced
- 1995–present
- Mass
- Combat: 55.8 t (61.5 short tons)
- Length
- 11.7 m (38 ft 5 in)
- Width
- 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in)
- Height
- 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in)
- Crew
- 5 (commander, driver, gunner, and two loaders)
- Rate of fire
- 3 rounds in 9 seconds (burst), 10 rounds per minute
- Effective firing range
- DM121 Boattail: 30 km (19 mi), M1711 base bleed : 40 km (25 mi), M2005 V-LAP ( RAP ): 54 km (34 mi)
- Armor
- Welded steel, 14.5 mm resistant, Additional bomblet protection
- Main armament
- Rheinmetall 155 mm L52 Artillery Gun, 60 rounds
- Secondary armament
- 7.62 mm Rheinmetall MG3 machine gun
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- armored fighting vehicle
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Followed by
- RCH 155
- Manufacturer
- KNDS Deutschland
- Conflict
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Image
- Dutch Panzerhaubitz fires in Afghanistan.jpg
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- Panzerhaubitze 2000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Panzerhaubitze 2000 ( German pronunciation: [ˈpant͡sɐhaʊ̯ˌbɪt͡sə t͡svaɪ̯ˈtaʊ̯zn̩t]), meaning "armoured howitzer 2000" and abbreviated PzH 2000, is a German 155 mm self-propelled howitzer developed by KNDS Deutschland (formerly Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW)) and Rheinmetall in the 1980s and 1990s for the German Army. The PzH 2000 has automatic support for up to five rounds of multiple round simultaneous impact. Replenishment of shells is automated. Two operators can load 60 shells and propelling charges in less than 12 minutes. The PzH 2000 equips the armies of Germany, Italy, Ukraine, Netherlands, Greece, Lithuania, Hungary, Qatar, and Croatia, mostly replacing older systems such as the M109 howitzer.
In November 2019, a PzH 2000 L52 gun fired a shell a distance of almost 67 km (42 mi). Rheinmetall started testing a prototype L52 gun barrel with a new charge for a range of at least 75 km (47 mi) since 2020. In May 2024, Rheinmetall announced that it would supply "a three-digit number" of L52 gun barrel systems for the Panzerhaubitze 2000 for "a European customer country".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Panzerhaubitze 2000” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.