This U.S. GPS-Guided Excalibur 155mm Artillery Round Can Hit A Target 30km Away With One-Meter Of Accuracy

Excalibur S round photographed during a test. (Raytheon)

FOX News/Warrior Maven: New laser-guided artillery round destroys moving target

Enemies hiding under a bridge, bunkered down on a specific floor in a large building, seeking cover on the backside of a mountain ridge or moving to attack in an armored vehicle convoy --- are all now more vulnerable to U.S. strikes due to an emerging laser-guided artillery round that can destroy enemy targets on the move in combat.

“We have many different experiments that are going on for long-range precision fires,” Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Joseph Martin told Warrior in an interview last fall.

The laser-guided Raytheon-developed weapon is an upgrade or adaptation to the well-known, GPS-guided Excalibur 155mm round first fired in Iraq more than 10 years ago. Using GPS and Inertial measurement precision guidance technology, Excalibur can pinpoint and eliminate targets from 30km (18.6 miles) -- within just one-meter of accuracy. The combat debut of Excalibur in Iraq ushered in what could be called a land-war transformation, marking the advent of a new kind of precision land attack.

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WNU Editor:Impressive. The Russian military is doing the same thing .... Russian Military Modernizing Its Artillery (October 30, 3019).