NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Army explosives experts are asking Northrop Grumman Corp. to provide precision-guidance kits to transform conventional 155-millimeter artillery shells into GPS-guided smart ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artillery has been one of the most heavily used weapons by both Russia and Ukraine. The intensity of its use has added urgency to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US halted deliveries of GPS-guided Excalibur shells to Ukraine due to high failure rates. Russia had achieved success in ...

Precision Guidance Kit installs in the artillery shell's fuze well and also gives traditional fuze functions for height-of-burst and point detonation. NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Army explosives experts are ...

The GPS guided mortar shells are popular with the troops as are the earlier GPS guided 155mm artillery shells, 227mm rockets and JDAM bombs. Excalibur, the first effective and widely used GPS guided ...

The U.S. Army has procured more 155mm Excalibur projectiles from Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX (NYSE: RTX), under a $276.5 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract.

Austin, United States, May 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- "As per SNS Insider, the Programmable Ammunition Market size was USD 2.67 Billion in 2025 and is expected to reach USD 5.36 Billion by 2035, with ...

November 11, 2024: One of the more useful weapons NATO sent to Ukraine were about 200 M777 155mm towed howitzers supplied by the United States, Canada and Australia. NATO nations sent Ukraine over 600 ...

The war in Ukraine has highlighted both the value of precision-guided artillery rounds and how such munitions can be foiled by jamming navigational technologies such as GPS. But the US Army is moving ...