Extended Range Cannon Artillery: Going Boom 43 Miles Away

Here’s some videos of BAE’s new M1299 self-propelled Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) firing Raytheon’s precision-guided M982 Excalibur artillery round. The round itself isn’t new, it’s been around for over a decade, but using the ERCA, they recently extended the effective range of the shell out to 43 miles:

“That blew up real good!”

Here’s a longer video that shows more detail, but also has one of those annoying computer voice-over tracks:

I suspect the ability to fire and scoot from such long ranges will be useful on future battlefields. They’re also working an integrating an autoloader into the ERCA.

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