PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- After a successful live-fire test of the Army’s Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) limited-capacity autoloader at Yuma Proving Ground in June 2019, the Picatinny ...
If mere inches can separate life and death in combat, how important is 700 feet? With conventional artillery rounds fired at long range, accuracy diminishes with distance; projectiles can land as far ...
Artillery shells, for example, can be set to detonate over the target after hitting the ground or, for very large projectiles, after penetrating a certain distance into the ground. To use the fuze ...
Its mission focuses on making armament systems more precise, energy efficient, scalable and effective by reducing the size of critical components in sub-systems such as safe and arm devices, ...
July 23, 2017: While the GPS guided Excalibur 155mm artillery shell revolutionized the use of artillery when it appeared in 2005, it is being displaced by a smaller, less capable but much cheaper ...
DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, announced today that the company has received a $69 million contract that exercises a ...
DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, announced today that the company’s precision guidance kit (PGK) is well into full-rate ...
On March 9, 1945, B-29 bombers in the U.S. Air Force began dropping incendiary bombs on the city of Tokyo. This raid, known as “Operation Meetinghouse,” caused incredible destruction, killing perhaps ...
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J., Aug. 26 (UPI) --A new 155mm artillery round with extended range is being developed by the U.S. Army. The XM1113 Insensitive Munition High Explosive Rocket Assisted Projectile, ...