"U.S. Army's Extended Range Cannon Artillery Scores A Direct" Topic
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Tango01 | 22 Dec 2020 12:51 p.m. PST |
… Hit On A Target 43 Miles Away "The Army's Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) system under development hit a target 43 miles away — or 70 kilometers — on the nose at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, Dec. 19, using an Excalibur extended-range guided artillery shell, according to the general who is overseeing the service's Long-Range Precision Fires modernization. "I don't think our adversaries have the ability to hit a target on the nose at 43 miles," Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, who is in charge of the effort, told a small group of reporters in a teleconference immediately following the test. The Army is racing to extend artillery ranges on the battlefield to take away advantages of high-end adversaries like Russia…"
Main page link Impressive… saying that… some experts believe the US Army still needs to improve their artillery capabilities… "Does the U.S. Army Have Long-Range Fire Problem?" link Amicalement Armand
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Thresher01 | 22 Dec 2020 2:39 p.m. PST |
Love it, and that is a very impressive range. I imagine 50 and 100 mile shells are in development. |
Augustus | 22 Dec 2020 9:09 p.m. PST |
Calculating…sigh. Okay…well..that puts extended range at the McDonald's a quarter mile away at this scale…. Going to need some radios. |
Legion 4 | 23 Dec 2020 9:41 a.m. PST |
Looks like a very good addition to the inventory … Of course I foresee the problem being, which has recently "been a monkey on the backs" of Grunts, Tankers, etc., at the pointy end of the spear. Like all supporting fires, e.g. FA, CAS, etc., fear of CD will come up. And the firepower may be denied … possibly costings those "at the front" unneeded losses. |
Tango01 | 23 Dec 2020 12:48 p.m. PST |
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