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BAE Systems has successfully tested a long-range guided projectile from a 155mm cannon for the US Army.
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The British multinational defence company successfully fired the sub-caliber artillery long-range Projectile with enhanced lethality from a 155mm XM907E2 58 calibre cannon at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
The round impacted a fixed target beyond ranges previously demonstrated by other precision-guided projectiles fired from the same type of cannon, according to BAE Systems weapon systems general manager and vice-president Brent Butcher.
“This successful test confirms our sub-caliber artillery long-range projectile with enhanced lethality can defeat long-range targets and advance to follow-on testing out to double the range of existing guided projectile and with sensors to find fixed and moving targets of interest,” he said.
“We are confident that the projectile is on track to provide the Army the best munitions solution for cannon artillery with a leap-ahead capability that will bring a highly lethal, manoeuvrable projectile to soldiers on the battlefield.”
The new projectile is expected to defeat fixed and moving targets in contested environments at more than double the range of existing cannon-launched precision-guided munitions.
Last year, BAE Systems’ extended range hypervelocity projectile successfully destroyed a target at a range of more than 110 kilometres.
BAE Systems is currently under contract with the US Army to develop and test the projectile as part of the Army’s XM1155 Extended Range Artillery Projectile program.
