Why Britain Gave Ukraine Every AS-90 It Had — Then Quietly Bought a German Robot to Replace Them

RCH 155. The German wheeled howitzer that fires on the move with only two crew and no one inside the turret. Britain donated every AS-90 self-propelled gun it owned to Ukraine, all ninety-nine of them, then signed a billion-pound deal for seventy-two robotic replacements. Built by KNDS Deutschland and Rheinmetall on the Boxer 8x8 armoured vehicle chassis, the RCH 155 mounts a fully automated 155mm Artillery Gun Module that loads, aims, and fires without a human hand touching the weapon. Over 240 RCH 155 howitzers have been ordered by five nations including Ukraine, Germany, Britain, and Switzerland. This video covers the AS-90 howitzer's thirty-year combat record, the unmanned turret's twenty-year development, and how the RCH 155 compares to the Archer, PzH 2000, Caesar, and K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzers in firepower, armor protection, and shoot-and-scoot survivability. We explain why the British Army chose a German wheeled self-propelled howitzer to rebuild Royal Artillery firepower from scratch under the Mobile Fires Platform defence programme. Subscribe for weekly deep dives into armoured fighting vehicles and military technology the mainstream never covers. #RCH155 #BritishArmy #Artillery #SelfPropelledHowitzer #BritishWarArmory