Wednesday, September 3, 2014

US Army Artillery hits mark with Raytheon Excalibur Ib Shell with INS GPS Guidance


▶ DEADLY ACCURATE GPS Guided Artillery US Army Raytheon Excalibur Ib - YouTube
Concept of Operations
Excalibur System


US buys over 700 Excalibur 1b shells.
June 27/14: Raytheon Company in Tucson, AZ receives a $51.8 million firm-fixed-price contract modification to acquire a total of 757 projectiles under Option #5 of the US Army’s Excalibur 155mm increment lb production contract. This brings total Option #5 orders to 853 shells (q.v. Dec 16/13) All funds are committed immediately, mostly using FY 2014 budgets.

Raytheon's GPS-guided artillery shell, the Excalibur Ib, has been given U.S. Army approval for full-rate production.

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