We need to get one of these for Oyarde

[Swordsmyth]

The U.S. Army is pushing ahead with plans to field a cannon with an astounding 1,000-mile+ range. The cannon, along with hypersonic weapons, will allow the service to attack long range, strategic-level targets far beyond the reach of existing Army systems.
According to Defense News, the Army’s program manager for long range fires, Col. John Rafferty, the service expects the gun to have a range of 1,000 nautical miles—or 1,150 statute miles. The technology behind the cannon is described as “cutting edge" that's so advanced that the service is not sure if the gun would be affordable.
The Army is set to conduct an early test of a key tech component at Naval Support Facility Dahlgren in Virginia “very soon.” NSF Dahlgren was the home of the Navy’s electromagnetic railgun program, before the gun was shipped out to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for additional testing.


Exactly how the U.S. Army intends to field a cannon with a range of 1,150 miles is unknown. The Army’s heaviest gun, the 155-millimeter gun on the M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzer, has a range of just 25 miles. The largest gun ever built, Schwerer Gustav, had a range of 28 miles. In the late 1980s, Canadian engineer Gerald Bull oversaw construction of the System 350 heavy gun for Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
Built into the side of a hill, System 350 had a barrel diameter of 350 millimeters and could lob a 300 pound projectile with 33 pounds of high explosives up to 265 miles. Gerald Bull was assassinated in 1990 and System 350 was never completed.
Ordinary artillery guns work by loading an artillery shell, followed by a powder charge, into the gun’s breech. When the gun is fired, burning powder charges create huge amounts of pressure behind the shell. As the pressure builds up, the shell is pushed out of the barrel and down range toward the target.
A 2018 report on the “thousand mile gun” suggests that it is probably a really big gun that fires a rocket-assisted projectile (RAP). At the time, Rafferty said the gun was based on proven principles and that “we’re scaling up things that we’re already doing.” A rocket-assisted projectile incorporates a rocket motor into the base of an artillery shell. The result is a shell with a smaller explosive charge but longer range. A larger diameter artillery shell could carry a large payload of solid rocket fuel, vastly increasing the projectile’s range.

The long range gun would give the Army an unprecedented ability to hit long range targets without calling on other services, particularly the U.S. Air Force, to engage them.
The Army aims to have a prototype ready by 2023 and will then decide if it wants to fully develop the gun for service.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/army-1-000-mi...192700987.html

[oyarde]

I need two of those .

[Anti Globalist]

I think everybody will benefit from having a cannon of that caliber, not just oyarde.

[Swordsmyth]

I need two of those .

True.

The long range gun would give the Army an unprecedented ability to hit long range targets without calling on other services, particularly the U.S. Air Force @Danke, to engage them.

[Zippyjuan]

Half a million a shot for basically cannon balls? Sixteen to twenty for a target? Only $8 to $10 million a target. Such a bargain!

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There are two complementary systems that would be designed to penetrate enemy territory. There’s the hypersonic missile, which is technologically exquisite, will be expensive and the force “will probably never have enough of those,” Rafftery said. Then there’s the strategic cannon, which “will be able to deliver a volume of more affordable projectiles,” possibly 12, 16 or 20 in shorter order, to destroy a target, Rafferty said.Each of the technology gates through which the Army will try to pass serves as a chance to assess if the capability is meeting lethality and cost goals. “This idea of volume and affordability and lethality is first and foremost in our minds,” Rafferty said.

“A lot of that comes down to cost,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville told Defense News in a recent interview. “If we are able to develop the strategic, long-range cannon system, the rounds may be only $400,000 or $500,000 compared to multimillion-dollar rounds. Cost does matter, and we are concerned about cost. There are some, definitely, physics challenges in doing these types of things, and that is the trade-off.”

[Swordsmyth]

As a small ball of fire shot out of the end of a new 50mm cannon, a cloud of smoke filled the air and, in what seemed like less than one second, an explosion of smoke and fire destroyed a mock enemy target from hundreds of yards away -- on the other side of an Arizona desert valley.
The explosion was precise, burning and shattering a metal target in successive shots of three to five rounds. This blast effect, weapons developers explain, is precisely the intent for the Army’s new 50mm weapon – to bring a longer-range, more-lethal measure of firepower to medium caliber armored vehicle attack.
The live-fire demonstration, taking place at Northrop Grumman’s 2019 Bushmaster User Conference in Kingman, Ariz., was designed to further prepare the weapon for integration onto armored vehicles and, ultimately, send the new cannon to war. Military representatives from the US and as many as 25 partner nations gathered to see the live-fire demo, which included a host of armored-vehicle weapons and technologies - such as the 50mm cannon.
The cannon attack was part of a live-fire demonstration intended to move the 50mm Bushmaster cannon closer to integration onto a turret and Army armored combat vehicle -- to include the service’s now-in-development Next Generation Combat Vehicle slated to emerge in the mid-2020s.
The 50mm canon, built by Northrop Grumman, is engineered to blend a variety of emerging, high-tech armored vehicle attack technologies into a single system -- to include advanced fire-control, automated targeting sensors, next-gen ammunition, new computer processing speed and longer-range medium caliber attack options.

According to Northrop information, the new 50mm cannon, referred to as the experimental XM913, can hit ranges more than twice as far as the roughly 2 kilometer range of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle’s existing M242 25mm cannon. “Dozens of countries have either parity or overmatch to the Bradley Fighting Vehicle’s M242,” a Northrop statement says. The 50mm is being engineered to address this potential disparity, by hitting ranges well over 4km.

More at: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...destroy-109436

[oyarde]

I should have a few 50 MM Cannons certainly

[Swordsmyth]

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More at: https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/23...rs-can-attend/

[Anti Globalist]

^Oyarde should definitely not be the only one that has access to all of that.

[Swordsmyth]

Traditionally, one of the most unpleasant jobs in the military has been ammunition haulers. The task involves basically truck driving coupled with the excitement of moving shells designed to explode, causing maximum damage to everything around them. Now the U.S. Army could eliminate that job altogether while still getting front-line units the artillery shells they need—by giving the job to robots.
The concept, known as Field Artillery Autonomous Resupply, envisions convoys of robotic vehicles snaking their way across roads, trails, and rough terrain, shuttling loads of 155-millimeter artillery shells to frontline forces. These convoys would run from battalion supply areas—where food, ammunition, and medical supplies are stockpiled—out into the field to artillery units conducting fire missions.

The Army Applications Library, along with the Army Futures Command, is pushing the industry to come up with a robotic solution to the artillery resupply problem. They point out that the mission of resupplying frontline artillery units with shells really hasn’t changed for more than a century, while commercial logistics and supply chain practices look nearly unrecognizable 100 years later. If Amazon is working to use autonomous flying drones to make deliveries, why isn’t the Army using drones to deliver shells to the battlefield?


While the Army probably won’t use quadcopters to deliver shells any time soon—each M107 155-millimeter high explosive shell weighs 94 pounds—a low-profile, cabless truck would be perfect for the job. The truck would home in on a signal broadcast by the artillery unit, then use AI to plot a course using existing roads and trails, ideally taking into account reports of enemy activity to ensure the smoothest and safest possible ride. A convoy of such vehicles could use GPS to effectively space themselves out across a road, ensuring that a sudden air or artillery strike doesn’t take out the entire convoy.
Once at the artillery unit reaches its location, a robotic arm could lift shells out of their crates and into the storage racks located in the cab of the howitzer, sparing soldiers the need to lift heavy shells.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/hauling-artil...221200686.html

[Swordsmyth]

The Army took two shots from its Extended-Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) system, which both reached 65 kilometers in range and hit intended targets, in a demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, on March 6, according to Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, who is in charge of Long-Range Precision Fires modernization, the Army’s top priority.The demonstration proves the cannon is capable of firing roughly 40 miles, which is about the distance between Washington, DC and Annapolis, Maryland, and will up the service’s game should it face near-peer adversaries on the battlefield in the future.
It is unclear whether the Army was pushing its shots out to the maximum range of capability or if the projectiles are currently capable of reaching farther ranges.


The Army’s Long-Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team under Army Futures Command has made the ERCA cannon development one of its centerpiece priorities over the past several years.
In 2018, the service was able to double the range of cannon artillery using a modified M777 howitzer by adding a supercharged propellant and the XM1113 rocket assisted projectile, which takes a 155mm artillery round and extends the cannon range to more than 60 kilometers by providing rocket-assist capability.
In the demonstration at Yuma, the Army fired — from a 58-caliber, 30-foot gun tube — a Raytheon-made Excalibur extended-range guided artillery shell and an XM1113 using supercharged propellant.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/army-takes-40...215340239.html

[oyarde]

The Army took two shots from its Extended-Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) system, which both reached 65 kilometers in range and hit intended targets, in a demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, on March 6, according to Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, who is in charge of Long-Range Precision Fires modernization, the Army’s top priority.The demonstration proves the cannon is capable of firing roughly 40 miles, which is about the distance between Washington, DC and Annapolis, Maryland, and will up the service’s game should it face near-peer adversaries on the battlefield in the future.
It is unclear whether the Army was pushing its shots out to the maximum range of capability or if the projectiles are currently capable of reaching farther ranges.


The Army’s Long-Range Precision Fires Cross-Functional Team under Army Futures Command has made the ERCA cannon development one of its centerpiece priorities over the past several years.
In 2018, the service was able to double the range of cannon artillery using a modified M777 howitzer by adding a supercharged propellant and the XM1113 rocket assisted projectile, which takes a 155mm artillery round and extends the cannon range to more than 60 kilometers by providing rocket-assist capability.
In the demonstration at Yuma, the Army fired — from a 58-caliber, 30-foot gun tube — a Raytheon-made Excalibur extended-range guided artillery shell and an XM1113 using supercharged propellant.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/army-takes-40...215340239.html

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