{"id":6068,"date":"2020-06-04T17:06:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:12:10","slug":"avances-en-el-extended-range-cannon-artillery-del-us-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=6068","title":{"rendered":"Avances en el &#8220;Extended Range Cannon Artillery&#8221; del US Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El ambicioso proyecto de artiller\u00eda ERCA (Extended Range Cannon Artillery), una de las prioridades del US Army en el marco del Programa para el desarrollo de Fuegos Precisos de Largo Alcance (LRPF), ha llevado a cabo ensayos con sus prototipos, obteniendo alcances superiores a los 60km. Se prev\u00e9 para el a\u00f1o 2023 disponer de un grupo de 18 piezas para ensayos operacionales.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/A93GH8Yb-g8kEN1SE.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Army&#8217;s plan to build a fleet of Extended Ranger Cannon Artillery systems starting in fiscal year 2021 will cost the service at least a half billion dollars, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/710\/707359.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to a new assessment from the Government Accountability Office \u2014 and that&#8217;s just for the basics.<\/p>\n<p>Initiated in September 2018, the middle-tier acquisition rapid prototyping effort\u00a0for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/military-tech\/army-m1299-howitzer-designation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">XM1299 long-range precision fires prototype<\/a>\u00a0known as Increment IC\u00a0\u2014\u00a0which includes\u00a0new armament, electrical systems, and &#8220;other upgrades&#8221; \u2014 will end up costing the service approximately $486 million, according to the GAO assessment.<\/p>\n<p>The Army plans on fielding 18 of the Increment 1C prototypes to a battalion for operational testing by fiscal year 2023, with the effort projected to end in October 2023 &#8220;to gather information for future ERCA increments,&#8221; according to the assessment.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the beginning for those 18 prototypes developed under the ERCA effort:\u00a0The Army is planning a separate Increment 2 effort, &#8220;which it expects will leverage the cannon and other components designed in Increment 1C,&#8221;\u00a0per the GAO report.<\/p>\n<p>Increment 2 may prove essential to whether the Army&#8217;s supergun actually seeing action. While\u00a0officials <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/military-tech\/army-extended-range-cannon-artillery-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently put the XM1299 through its paces at the Yuma Proving Ground<\/a>, the nine technologies identified as critical to the ERCA Increment 1C development \u2014 namely the gun mount and projectile \u2014 are all currently immature, per the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the Army is still developing its plan to mature these technologies, it intends to demonstrate that they will near maturity in early 2020,&#8221; according to the GAO report. &#8220;The Army expects all to be mature upon the completion of the rapid prototyping effort in 2023.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The GAO was unable to identify a potential cost for Increment 2, which will build and issue another 18 prototype vehicles starting in fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Developed <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/army-long-range-weapons-russia-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in response<\/a> to increasing concerns of near-peer adversaries like Russia and China, the ERCA prototype <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/military-tech\/army-m1299-howitzer-designation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">originally<\/a> nailed targets with pinpoint accuracy at ranges up to 38 miles (62 kilometers) during testing at Yuma back in March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>During both rounds of testing, the XM1299 far outstripped the range of both the M109A7 Paladin (18 miles, or 30 km, with a rocket-assisted projectile) and the M777 (25 miles, or 40km, with a rocket-assisted projectile) howitzers.<\/p>\n<p>BAE received a $45 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/07\/15\/bae-gets-green-light-to-build-us-army-extended-range-cannon-prototype\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contract<\/a> in 2019 to integrate the new Army cannon into a standard Paladin chassis. The Army is also working with General Dynamics on a $7.9 million contract to <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/military-tech\/army-extended-range-cannon-artillery-ramjet-rounds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">develop<\/a> a 155mm ramjet-assisted long-range artillery round capable of nailing targets at ranges of up to 60 miles (100 kilometers) away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuente:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/military-tech\/army-ecra-long-range-artillery-cost?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=EBB%2006.04.20&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El ambicioso proyecto de artiller\u00eda ERCA (Extended Range Cannon Artillery), una de las prioridades del US Army en el marco del Programa para el desarrollo&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}