Monday - January 18, 2010

Boom Boom

Quite a while ago I put up a post on the new and expensive Excalibur guided artillery shell and then a detailed update on it half a year later. At the time the shell was accurate to “less than 10 meters at ranges out to 14 miles”, but the upcoming new and improved 1b version would be good for “an accuracy requirement of less than 10 meters out to 24 miles”.

Looks like the 1b shells are in theater and working out just fine, maybe even better than expected.

There is no exaggeration saying that an Excalibur round could destroy a parked car twenty miles away on the first shot.

But it gets even better. The ancient game of battery/counter battery has been taken beyond the next level. Our troops have devices that can spot incoming short range missiles, artillery rounds, and even mortar shells and plot their trajectories back to the source even before the incoming fire has impacted. And not only can they get off a couple of magically accurate shots in response, terrain analysis and historic route analysis have enabled them to shoot back at the places that “shoot and run” enemies are likely to run to. Before they run to them. Plus we’ve got other systems that can reliably knock the incoming shit right out of the air. Outstanding. ( I do not know if such systems are fully deployed yet. I’ve heard some have it, some don’t, and that Israel has an even better system just out )

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

Posted by Drew458     on 01/18/2010 at 02:39 PM   
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