US Army’s Extended Range Cannon Artillery Hits A Target 43 Miles Away

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Battleswarm Blog: 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:  

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WNU Editor: Hitting a target 43 miles away. That is incredible.