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Parent topics
- Precision-guided munition [r]: A powered or unpowered weapon that adjusts its flight path to hit a specific target, with a circular error probability in the low number of meters, often less than the radius of destruction [e]
- Guided shell [r]: A piece of artillery ammunition that can alter its course after being fired. [e]
- Inertial navigation [r]: Navigation method that does not depend on external references, but computes the present position by sensing the movement of the navigating platform from a precisely known starting point in space, using accelerometers to sense position changes from a reference provided by gyroscopes [e]
- Global Positioning System [r]: Originally developed for U.S. military needs, a satellite-based system for obtaining precise position and time information; the most widely used part of the Global Navigation Satellite System [e]
- 155mm howitzer [r]: Implemented in self-propelled or lightweight towed versions, this howitzer size, with slight variations in caliber, is the world's most common medium artillery type [e]
Subtopics
- M109 howitzer [r]: A family of self-propelled 155mm howitzers developed by the U.S. Army [e]
- M198 howitzer [r]: Lightweight towed 155mm howitzer of the U.S. Marine Corps, being replaced by the M777 [e]
- M777 howitzer [r]: British-developed, extremely lightweight towed 155mm howitzer, used by the U.S. Marine Corps in network-centric warfare with precision-guided munitions such as the M982 Excalibur guided shell [e]
- Base bleed [r]: A technique for increasing the range of artillery shells, by generating gas at the base of the shell to fill a drag-inducing vacuum that forms there; usually some type of additional burning propellant [e]
- Circular error probability [r]: The most common metric of how close to a target a weapon will strike: the radius of a circle, centered on the mean impact point, in which half the projectiles of that weapon will hit [e]
- Future Combat Systems [r]: An cancelled development program,including a variety of military systems, including armored fighting vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, artillery, precision guided munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles; was an evolutionary step in the restructuring of the United States Army and tailored to the brigade combat team organizational structure but will continue partially in the Brigade Combat Team Modernization [e]
- M107 shell [r]: Standard US-NATO 155mm howitzer blast-fragmentation unguided warhead; to be replaced by the M795 shell [e]
- M712 Copperhead [r]: First operational guided shell for 155mm howitzers; laser-guided; effective but prohibitively expensive; used in Gulf War [e]
- M795 shell [r]: Replacement for the 155mm howitzer shell with increased lethality and range, and insensitive high explosive rather than TNT [e]
- M864 shell [r]: Base bleed but unguided extended-range shell for 155mm howitzers [e]