General Atomics successfully tests next-gen artillery round

[Talyn]

A controlled artillery round that can hit targets from 120 kilometers away in GPS-denied environments was successfully tested at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems’ Long Range Maneuvering Projectile, or LRMP, was fired from an M777 howitzer platform using M231 powder charges during an August test, the company announced Monday.

General Atomics successfully tests next-gen artillery round

The winged, precision-guided artillery round is maneuverable while in flight and can conduct controlled descents to strike static and moving targets.

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[3L120]

That is one looooong round and looks like obturation would be difficult…spoken as a redleg…

 

[Shibadog]

That puppy’ll be like the long range round for the Zumwalt’s-$1,000,000 a pop

 

[wiliiamhenry]

A controlled artillery round that can hit targets from 120 kilometers away in GPS-denied environments was successfully tested at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems’ Long Range Maneuvering Projectile, or LRMP, was fired from an M777 howitzer platform using M231 powder charges during an August test, the company announced Monday.

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Not bad at all — I’m guessing this is rocket-assisted. Its range is comparable to the Paris Gun from 1918, which still holds the record for the longest horizontal range of any tube-fired artillery, reaching up to 130 km (about 81 miles).

 

[Shibadog]

Not bad at all — I’m guessing this is rocket-assisted. Its range is comparable to the Paris Gun from 1918, which still holds the record for the longest horizontal range of any tube-fired artillery, reaching up to 130 km (about 81 miles).

And that worked with plain old gunpowder