The M fires non-fixed separate projectile and propellant ammunition and can be loaded with a variable number of propellant bags. The M is capable of providing fire support in both indirect and direct fire capacities. The M howitzer weighs 15, pounds in both traveling and firing configuration , and is The cannon itself has 45 degrees of lateral traverse and can be elevated between 72 and -5 degrees.
The normal ground transport for the M is the M 6x6 5-ton truck and the cannon itself requires a crew of nine. The M has a sustained rate of tire of 4 rounds per minute. The development of the M mm towed howitzer began in when a lightweight replacement was sought for the WWII era M mm howitzer. A testbed prototype was developed and constructed at the Army's Rock Island arsenal in and firing tests began in Therefore, doing the simple math, a 70km U.
While senior Army weapons developers welcome the possibility of longer range accurate artillery fire, they also recognize that its effectiveness hinges upon continued development of sensor, fire control and target technology.
I have to acquire the right target. We want to be able to hit moving targets and targets obscured by uneven terrain," the senior Army developer said. Multi-domain warfare is also integral to the strategic impetus for the new ERCA weapon; longer range land weapons can naturally better enable air attack options.
David Perkins and Air Force Air Combat Command Commanding General James Holmes launched a new series of tabletop exercises several months ago -- designed to to replicate and explore these kinds of future warfare scenarios.
The project is oriented toward exploring the kind of conflicts expected to require technologically advanced Army-Air Force integration. In a previous Pentagon report, Holmes said the joint wargaming effort will "turn into a doctrine and concept that we can agree on.
Such a development would mark a substantial step beyond prior military thinking, which at times over the years has been slightly more stove-piped in its approach to military service doctrines. Interestingly, the new initiative may incorporate and also adjust some of the tenants informing the 's Air-Land Battle Doctrine; this concept, which came to fruition during the Cold War, was focused on integrated air-ground combat coordination to counter a large, mechanized force in major warfare.
While AirLand battle was aimed primarily at the Soviet Union decades ago, new Army-Air Force strategy in today's threat environment will also most certainly address the possibility of major war with an advanced adversary like Russia or China.
James McConville told Defense News in In the Department of Defense established Army Futures Command to lead the way in developing new technologies and doctrines to defeat modern threats. All three of the Dec.
The Paladin mobile artillery system typically wields a caliber barrel. During a test in March, the novel ultra-long-range artillery system hit a target located just over 40 miles away. The standard artillery shell for the Army and Marine Corps, the mm M, can be fired at a maximum range of about 14 miles using standard propellant.
When used with existing mm artillery systems, the XM rocket-assisted projectile has a range of about 25 miles. The ERCA cannon fires a mm projectile at a speed of more than 1, meters per second. The Excalibur shell can home in on a target with an accuracy of about seven feet using jam-resistant GPS and laser guidance. That precision targeting ability allows the Excalibur to hit moving targets better than existing artillery systems. Most artillery rounds are designed to create some kind of shrapnel when they explode.
Shrapnel works kind of like a bullet. When it hits flesh, the shrapnel shreds the tissue it passes through, just like a bullet. But, also like a bullet, the biggest factor in lethality is the amount of energy imparted by the munition into the flesh. Basically, physics tells us that no energy or mass is created or destroyed except in nuclear reactions. So, a piece of metal flying at high speeds has a lot of energy that is imparted to the flesh it passes through, causing cell death and destroying tissue in a larger area than just what the piece of metal actually touches.
So, if a piece of shrapnel hits any of those spots, it will likely cause cell death and then human death. But, shrapnel dispersion is its own, odd beast. Lance Cpl. But shrapnel still carries a lot of momentum from its flight. As the round explodes, the force of the explosion propels the shrapnel out, but the metal fragments still carry a lot of the momentum from when they were crashing down towards the earth. So, if the artillery round was flying straight down, the shrapnel would hit in a near-perfect circle, as if a giant had fired directly downwards with a shotgun.
But, in a likely surprise to most people, even this most lethal area typically only injures or kills just over half the time.. But what if you have a nice thick steel plate or concrete wall protecting you? An artillery crewman from Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, th Field Artillery Regiment, th Armored Brigade Combat Team, Task Force Spartan, uses a tool to secure the fuse to the mm round during a combined arms live fire exercise on September 11, See, the explosion at the heart of the an artillery round creates lots of shrapnel because of the sudden expansion of air as the explosive is consumed.
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