08 AS-90 BRAVEHEART IN DETAIL.pdf

The 155mm self-propelled

howitzer resulted from a fa-

irly adventurous move ta-

ken by the development u-

nit of the Vickers

Shipbuilding and

Engineering Limited (VSEL),

seated in the United

Kingdom. It came to life by

the manufacturer's private

initiative in the early eighties

of the last century. At that ti-

me already, the British

ground forces expressed

their need to replace the

obsolescent ABBOT artillery

systems by a new, more po-

werful one. There were two

optional approaches under

considerations: the U.S. offer

to purchase the partially re-

novated self-propelled ho-

witzers, Development Series

M109, or the joint European

project, later called SP-70,

being then prepared. The

pre-tender theoretic discus-

sions followed at the British

military top positions, driven

by the need of a new turret,

which would then be moun-

ted on an appropriate chas-

sis. During 1981, when the

VSEL Company was offering

its new gun turret, the SP-70

international project was

underway in order to stan-

dardize the artillery systems

within the framework of NA-

TO in the territory of Europe

where nobody else, but

VSEL was playing one of

the priority roles. But this

project used to run into nu-

merous obstacles, mostly in

the form the diverging in-

terests and requirements of

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