Artillery Lovers Group
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Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons. These engines comprise specialised devices which use some form of stored energy to operate, whether mechanical, chemical, or electromagnetic. Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.
The ATROM is a self-propelled artillery howitzer mounted on a cross-country 6x6 wheeled vehicle, he is manufactured by the Romanian company Aerostar S.A, a variant of the Israeli ATMOS 2000. The Atrom was reveleted for the first time in 2003 during the Defense Exhibition, Expomil in Bucharest. The ATROM is armed with 155 mm / 52 calibre gun. The ARTROM has a crew of five, deployment operations are controlled by the gunner, from a hydraulic platform, which provides access to sight instruments and control system, and also provides comfortable loading and firing. The ATROM is a fully automatic self-propelled howitzer, with automatic and safe data transfer, by network connections among the attached ETC 2000 Tactical Computers, through all the echelons of command and with the Meteo Station, as well. The complete ATROM 155 mm/52 calibre system was integrated in Romania and fired for the first time late in October 2003 using various types of ammunition, including 155 mm Extended Range Full Bore - Base Bleed (ERFB-BB) that gives a range of at least 41 km.As with a number of countries in Eastern Europe, Romania is now moving towards NATO standard calibres for its weapons.