El revolucionario proyectil guiado de Artillería EXCALIBUR en calibre 155mm, desarrollado y empleado tradicionalmente por la Artillería de campaña terrestre de varios países, ahora tiene una versión naval denominada N5 en calibre 127mm, que ha sido ensayado exitosamente por la US NAVY. Este proyectil se destaca por su extrema precisión, con un CEP (Circular Error Probability) de 2 metros, lo cual reduce la cantidad de disparos necesarios para batir eficazmente un blanco.
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz., May 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the U.S. Navy completed a new round of successful Excalibur® N5 munition test firings. The precision-guided projectiles demonstrated various short-, mid- and long-range capabilities.
Designed to be fired from the Navy’s five-inch guns, Excalibur N5 is the sea-based variant of the revolutionary, extended-range, precision munition used by ground forces around the globe. The Excalibur weapon provides accurate, first-round effects at all ranges in all weather conditions.
“Excalibur N5 answers the Navy’s need for a sea-launched, precision-guided projectile,” said Sam Deneke, Raytheon Land Warfare Systems vice president. “N5 doubles the range of the Navy’s big guns and delivers the same accuracy as the land-based version.”
Excalibur is a true precision weapon, impacting at a radial miss distance of less than two meters from the target. Widely used by U.S. and international artillery forces, Excalibur has been fired more than 1,400 times in combat. The precision-guided projectile was co-developed by Raytheon Company and BAE Systems Bofors.
Besides N5, Raytheon has developed other variants such as the laser-guided Excalibur S, Excalibur HTK and Excalibur Shaped Charged Trajectory.
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