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totoro said:https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/revealed-the-details-of-chinas-latest-hit-to-kill-interceptor-test/
While most of the stuff is known, there are some tidbits new to me in the text above. According to them, it's a "larger than sm-3" missile with capabilities "similar to sm-3", called dn-3.
bobbymike said:From Inside Defense (paywall)
DOD seeking $1.5B for SCO in FY-19, including $438M for seven new projects
The Strategic Capabilities Office is seeking nearly $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2019 -- an increase of more than 20 percent over FY-18 -- to develop new and surprising ways of using existing technology to bolster conventional deterrence against China and Russia.
I guess the implication is that the HVP doesn't have an active seeker so the interferometric radars provide the necessary angular resolution for
some command guided or midcourse update scheme. We've seen similar schemes before.
EMRG? AFAIK there are no plans to field either the GA or BAE design. (IMO they should field both and wring them out.)thinkin the anti-air Hypervelocity Projectile will still not be launced from the current EMRGs.
The small projectile, which can fly at Mach 5, was developed by the Navy and the Army, he said, and was launched from an Army M109 Paladin-based 155mm howitzer
A shame the M110 & M107 are no longer in service. Kinda makes you wonder why they bothered using one in this test, or developing a projectile for it. (The M110 in this case.)
A shame the M110 & M107 are no longer in service. Kinda makes you wonder why they bothered using one in this test, or developing a projectile for it. (The M110 in this case.)
The ASAF said the projectiles were fired from an Army M109 and a Navy gun in the test, but I don't see a Mk 45 turret anywhere. I suspect that what looks like an M110 here is actually just a recycled chassis with Navy 127mm ordnance for ballistic testing.
Thats defiantly not a Standard M110, the Breech is total different to all the ones I have seen for one. It looks more like a sliding breech instead of the standard screw breech. And the Recoil mechanisms look different as well.
A shame the M110 & M107 are no longer in service. Kinda makes you wonder why they bothered using one in this test, or developing a projectile for it. (The M110 in this case.)
The ASAF said the projectiles were fired from an Army M109 and a Navy gun in the test, but I don't see a Mk 45 turret anywhere. I suspect that what looks like an M110 here is actually just a recycled chassis with Navy 127mm ordnance for ballistic testing.
Yeah there seems to be some kind of attachment towards the tip of both barrels. Thought it was the M110s muzzle brake.
Thats defiantly not a Standard M110, the Breech is total different to all the ones I have seen for one. It looks more like a sliding breech instead of the standard screw breech. And the Recoil mechanisms look different as well.
What it maybe a second 155 long barrel that they slap on the M110 chasis that they have floating around White Sands and the Navy gun is on that stand you can see at about 1 minute 50 seconds and 3 minutes in.
Under this test phase, Lockheed Martin and BAE plan to fire a total of 25 LRLAP rounds at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Those rounds will be shot from an Advanced Gun System (AGS) tube mounted on a M110 8-inch howitzer chassis, a Lockheed Martin official told Defense Daily during the same interview. BAE builds AGS which is being developed for DDG-1000.
Thats defiantly not a Standard M110, the Breech is total different to all the ones I have seen for one. It looks more like a sliding breech instead of the standard screw breech. And the Recoil mechanisms look different as well.
What it maybe a second 155 long barrel that they slap on the M110 chasis that they have floating around White Sands and the Navy gun is on that stand you can see at about 1 minute 50 seconds and 3 minutes in.
You're right, I see the Navy gun on that platform now.
The chassis seen right at the beginning of the video is labeled AGS. I wonder if it's the ordnance testbed for the Navy 155mm Advanced Gun System. They might still have it left over after LRLAP development ended. From 2010:
Under this test phase, Lockheed Martin and BAE plan to fire a total of 25 LRLAP rounds at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Those rounds will be shot from an Advanced Gun System (AGS) tube mounted on a M110 8-inch howitzer chassis, a Lockheed Martin official told Defense Daily during the same interview. BAE builds AGS which is being developed for DDG-1000.
I think we see this same gun with and without that muzzle fitting; the chassis at ~43 seconds is also marked AGS but lacks those big rings around the muzzle. The Navy gun in some shots also has a new muzzle fitting, as does Howitzer Test Bed-VIII (the long-tube M109). Probably some sort of inductive round setter or velocity measuring system associate with HVP.
Definitely the AGS tester, BAE Land (formerly UD) never throws anything like that away.Thats defiantly not a Standard M110, the Breech is total different to all the ones I have seen for one. It looks more like a sliding breech instead of the standard screw breech. And the Recoil mechanisms look different as well.
What it maybe a second 155 long barrel that they slap on the M110 chasis that they have floating around White Sands and the Navy gun is on that stand you can see at about 1 minute 50 seconds and 3 minutes in.
You're right, I see the Navy gun on that platform now.
The chassis seen right at the beginning of the video is labeled AGS. I wonder if it's the ordnance testbed for the Navy 155mm Advanced Gun System. They might still have it left over after LRLAP development ended. From 2010:
Under this test phase, Lockheed Martin and BAE plan to fire a total of 25 LRLAP rounds at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Those rounds will be shot from an Advanced Gun System (AGS) tube mounted on a M110 8-inch howitzer chassis, a Lockheed Martin official told Defense Daily during the same interview. BAE builds AGS which is being developed for DDG-1000.
I think we see this same gun with and without that muzzle fitting; the chassis at ~43 seconds is also marked AGS but lacks those big rings around the muzzle. The Navy gun in some shots also has a new muzzle fitting, as does Howitzer Test Bed-VIII (the long-tube M109). Probably some sort of inductive round setter or velocity measuring system associate with HVP.
If True, It's a Mistake: "It May Be the End of the Line for the Navy's Hypervelocity Projectile"
Reported at Military.com by Hope Hodge Seck It May Be the End of the Line for the Navy's Hypervelocity Projectile The hypervelocity project...www.eaglespeak.us
Not if you cancel it.Isn't the issue here that the same round can be fired from ordinary deck guns?