GPS-Based Fuze Expected To Triple Cannon's Accuracy
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Minneapolis: United Defense Industries demonstrated a cost-effective system to improve cannon artillery accuracy with the successful firing of inert M795 155-mm cannon projectiles equipped with a two-directional Course Correcting Fuze (CCF).
United Defense has developed this new system with teammates Bofors Defence, Rockwell Collins and BT Fuze Products.
The CCF is a revolutionary, GPS-based innovation that dramatically improves the effectiveness of existing cannon artillery ammunition and provides near-precision accuracy that is critical in combat environments.
It can be employed on all types of U.S. 155-mm and 105-mm projectiles in the U.S. Field Artillery inventory, and is ready for a fast track full scale development and early fielding.
United Defense successfully fired M795 rounds equipped with the CCF from a M109A6 Paladin to ranges of 14.5 kilometers at Yuma Proving Ground.
Preliminary analysis from the demonstration confirmed United Defense's laboratory analysis and the projectiles equipped with the CCF achieved a precision error of less than 50 meters - three times more accurate than the control rounds.
"Urban conflict in Iraq has re-validated the need for accurate and responsive cannon fired artillery," said Jim Unterseher, director of Army Programs at United Defense.
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More International DefenceNews.info and Discussions:
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Minneapolis: United Defense Industries demonstrated a cost-effective system to improve cannon artillery accuracy with the successful firing of inert M795 155-mm cannon projectiles equipped with a two-directional Course Correcting Fuze (CCF).
United Defense has developed this new system with teammates Bofors Defence, Rockwell Collins and BT Fuze Products.
The CCF is a revolutionary, GPS-based innovation that dramatically improves the effectiveness of existing cannon artillery ammunition and provides near-precision accuracy that is critical in combat environments.
It can be employed on all types of U.S. 155-mm and 105-mm projectiles in the U.S. Field Artillery inventory, and is ready for a fast track full scale development and early fielding.
United Defense successfully fired M795 rounds equipped with the CCF from a M109A6 Paladin to ranges of 14.5 kilometers at Yuma Proving Ground.
Preliminary analysis from the demonstration confirmed United Defense's laboratory analysis and the projectiles equipped with the CCF achieved a precision error of less than 50 meters - three times more accurate than the control rounds.
"Urban conflict in Iraq has re-validated the need for accurate and responsive cannon fired artillery," said Jim Unterseher, director of Army Programs at United Defense.
FULL article:
http://www.defensetalk.com/news/publ...cle_002602.php
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