In the United States experienced a howitzer at a distance of a shot over a hundred kilometers
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In the United States, high-precision howitzers with a firing range over 100 kilometers have been tested. The tests were carried out in the framework of the ERCA program (Extended Range Cannon Artillery - "Barrel artillery with an increased range), reports "Popular Mechanics".
As the newspaper writes, the shooting took place on the territory of the military ground of Hume in Arizona. On the tests, a modernized self-propelled howitzer Paladin was used, on which they installed an elongated barrel XM907 and used a new XM1113 projectile with a rocket booster. According to the US military, the advantage of such howitzers are significantly increased range and rate of fire, as well as reliability.
The program to create a barreled artillery with increased range of fire appeared in the United States in 2015 year. As part of this program, it was proposed to create a new howitzer with an elongated barrel, a new projectile and a new propelling charge. All components of the ERCA artillery complex received their own working designations: the 155-mm howitzer of the new type - XM907, the controlled active-projectile for it is called XM1113, the propelling charge - XM645. The XM907 cannon was developed based on the M777ER howitzer and differs from it in barrel length (58 gauges instead of 55). In the standard howitzer М777, the length of the barrel is 39 caliber.
Last year, the US military said that they were able to fire a shot with an elongated gun and a projectile to it at a distance of 62 km, calling it a non-limiting value.
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