New range-doubling GPS-guided Army artillery smart munitions destroy targets as far away as 40 miles
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. – U.S. Army field artillery experts have taken a new step toward redefining land-attack tactics and paving the way toward a new warfare era in long-range fires. Kris Osborn at Warrior Maven reports. Continue reading original article
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
3 April 2020 -- Testing last month at the Army's Yuma Proving Ground in the Arizona desert showed a precision-guided artillery shell that destroyed an enemy target from nearly 40 miles away during a recent live-fire exercise.
The demonstration of the emerging Long Range Precision Fires program had an Army 155-millimeter howitzer that blasted a Raytheon Excalibur GPS-guided artillery round out to ranges twice that of what existing artillery weapons.
The new smart munitions weapon in development, called Extended Range Cannon Artillery, not only preserves the GPS-guided precision attack options of the Excalibur ammunition, but also extends attack ranges from roughly 19 miles to almost 44 miles.
Related: The future of precision-guided munitions
Related: Army makes big order for Excalibur satellite-guided smart munitions artillery rounds
John Keller, chief editor
Military & Aerospace Electronics