The Pentagon Wants A Better Artillery Shell

U.S. Navy

Peter J. Brown, National Interest: The U.S. Military Will Soon Have 5,000 MPH 'Bullets' (and It's All North Korea's Fault)

One of the less known ripple effects of North Korea’s latest round of saber rattling is it provides the US military with reasons to speed up development of a next-generation artillery shell that travels extreme distances at four-times the speed of sound.

Yes, they can target missiles. The two-foot long shells, known as hypervelocity projectiles or HVPs, have been under operational tests since 2016 and as they travel in excess of 5,000 mph, hit targets with the impact of a freight train.

Because the next-generation shells are precision-guided and travel at such extreme speed, they can hit targets as far as 100 miles away in 72 seconds, markedly reducing options to evade.

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WNU Editor: The range and speed of these projectiles is truly amazing.