Raytheon, US Army upgrade ‘Excalibur’ projectile

Raytheon Company and the US Army have completed development of “revolutionary capability” for cannon artillery by upgrading the combat-proven Excalibur® precision-guided projectile. The Excalibur Shaped Trajectory, or EST, variant will enable soldiers to destroy targets in hard-to-reach locations by selecting the projectile’s terminal or final phase attack angle. With the Excalibur EST munition, “soldiers can target a bunker positioned on the opposite side of a mountain slope, target a multistory building from the side rather than the top or defeat enemy assets positioned under highway overpasses”.