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No damage control to stop the leak??
Damage control teams can only do so much. The damage was severe enough that the ship had to return to port.
GD Land System had an example of SHORAD using the M5 based TRX platform at AUSA 2024. All of this is controlled / overseen by the newly introduced Styker variant Mission Command On The Move (MCOTM).
Northrop is looking increase GMLRS rocket motor output to 14,000 units per year from the current range of 5 to 6,000 units in order to replenish stock. Current rocket motor production is done in West Virginia and Maryland, which concentrate on medium, tactical-sized solid rocket motors.
Northrop has spent a billion dollars to boost production capability at the those two sites along with the large rocket motor site in Utah.
Northrop has spent a billion dollars to boost production capability at the those two sites along with the large rocket motor site in Utah.
ERCA was a total failure. The extremely expensive gun barrel just lasts for a limited number of shots making the whole thing impractical.
The M109A7 program looks like a way more practical system and hopefully it gets decently funded instead of that pie in the sky system. Especially if they add the autoloader to the M109A7 making it competitive with other current leading edge systems. The South Koreans seem to be having decent success exporting their artillery system and it has that.
Still no solution to the GPS jamming problem though. Will still be a failed system in GPS denied environments.
14,000 units per year = 38 rounds fired per day in a full blown long war. At 2% hit rate with GPS denial, well, do the math. 0.76 shots on target a day.
If it was me running the program I would fund some kind of program to try to develop MEMS based inertial guidance systems which can improve the hit rate in GPS denied environments, and work on making GPS more robust to jamming and spoofing.
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