I'm amazed that the electronics and inertial guidance system is robust enough to reliably withstand the massive acceleration forces generated when fired from the artillery piece. Impressive!
When I was in ROTC, we were just learning about “guided artillery rounds”. Then (circa 1980), those guidance systems had to continue operating after surviving 7,000g coming out of the barrel. Today I am hearing figures that are past 10,000g. I can’t even guess how those things are engineered.
Raytheon and BAE both manufacture the Excalibur. Raytheon designed and developed the GPS/SAL guidance system including the fins, while BAE was responsible for the payload and base.
Not enough! Our intelligence services have found the US is developing 6th gen fighter aircraft. We want the factory to be set up in Kyiv immediately so our brave pilots can defend our skies. We understand America is our friend but for how long must we wait for the aircraft factory!!
Would be surprise if people know the truth. They sent game changer accuracy weapons to Ukraine but the actual problem isn't quality, it's quantity, and how to use those things with combine arms force
The Excalibur is not a game changer because of its extreme cost. What is game changer is the low cost precision guidance kit that can be screwed in place of a fuse on a standard artillery shell, PGK. This enables an ordinary shell to have high accuracy of a GPS munition allong with the ability ,air burst, contact detonate, or penetrate detonation. The kit will also deactivate the shell if it goes off target so artillery using these kits can be used much closer to friendly troops with out the risk of accidentally hitting one's own friendly troops. Because of this system's low cost and high tec abilities this system is a true game changer.
PGK costs about $13k/kit with shorter range. With counter-battery radars and counter-artillery being the top mission, Excalibur does its job very well for that price. Almost a one shot, one kill capability.
@@leneanderthalien don't forget counter-battery reaction! I think this is key because their counter-battery won't be able to lock on after one or two shots.
This shell was developed in Sweden by BAE Systems Bofors (body, payload, ballistics) and Raytheon (USA) which did the GPS guidance. It was tested using the Archer (Swedish) self propelled artillery. Sweden has a hand in a lot of these advanced munitions. Bonus Artillery shell and the STRIX 120mms Mortar shell. Both precision and designed to take out armor. Then the is the hand held systems NLAW , AT4 and Carl Gustaf.
@@manzion7599 Yes for sure as Sweden and Finland together are excellent additions and are at the top end of cutting edge of technologies in a few areas.
@@manzion7599 Everyone but you, apparently. Between Sweden, Finland and Estonia, Russia's Kaliningrad enclave and only warm-water port not subject to the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits are worthless. Now NATO will reinforce the "trip-wire" troop detachment in the Suwalki Gap in preparation for a move on Lithuania.
@@wogelson You hadn't worked out that they were talking about the accuracy, not the penetrating power, had you. I hope for your sake that no-one who knows you read your post.
They most definitely can The Canadian army liked these things so much; we used them instead of sir supoet for a lot of afgansitsn because it was just as accurate but you could get it on target within minutes instead of waitng around for an aircraft to be available and fly to you
There is no single game changer in this war. But the accumulation and combination of all this advanced systems will save many ukrainian lives and this will make all the difference
I remember the hype around this things ''it is going to be a game changer in ukraine''what happened..??nothing seems to be working and on the other hand now russians have started increasing the use of their own versions of krasnopol and the upgraded ones krasnopol-m2
The Excalibur round is very impressive. The increase in range is amazing. When I was in Vietnam the M114A1 using 155 mm had a maximum range of 11 miles, so the Excalibur has more than doubled the range. With the GPS system that makes it possible to still be accurate at that range. I am concerned about the cost of it. With standard shells costing only a hundred each the Excalibur definitely should be saved for those special occasions where the standard shell cannot reach. In training, 1967, I was told the standard 155mm was accurate enough to land on a standard army size blanket repeatedly at the 11 mile maximum distance. That to me is accurate enough to be praiseworthy and I'm certain the newer 155 howitzers are at least as accurate as our old WWII howitzers were. We occasionally used the 155 to create foxholes for troops who had been pinned down. We fired really close to them, had to use special aiming tools for accuracy, and they would crawl into the hole our shells made. Sometimes we fired the shells to make the holes then fired smoke rounds so the VC could not see them.
If you watch videos of the Excaliber, you will see flames come out the back. This is known as "base bleed", which smooths out the airflow around the tail of the round, and this is what gives it that extra range. But think of the Excalibur as a weapon that functions as part of a system. Also in the Ukraine inventory is the M712 Copperhead, which is laser guided. And in today's modern battlefield, a drone marks the target, the Copperhead finishes it off. Then you add the 155 mm DPICM cluster to wipe out foxholes. The 155 has become much more than an artillery piece, it is a versatile delivery system for a large range of nasty surprises for the enemy. But it is nice to have such a weapon that is almost guaranteed to nail a high value target first shot.
A random RUclips promo with the Excalibur made me watch this, but your comment is the thing I learnt of value. Amazing to think foxholes were created by accurate friendly intention. True team work. Thanks for the insight.
Well, the game isn't going well. Russia will eventually win, but at the cost of a full generation of men. No war is worth that much bloodshed, even if it's a necessary war, and this one isn't. Russia will suffer a population collapse from the loss, it already was suffering from population issues before the war.
@@mattycakes1161 at least they succeded in stoping the drug abuse epidemy in their country... it's terrible for everybody. I'm not on russian side, I'm just sad that my country (France) pushes so hard for the pursuit of this stupid silly crazy war between two brother people
@@annonymous3871 I seriously doubt this helped the drug problem, it probably made it worse in areas where people fled to in Ukraine, drugs are probably all some of them have now. I'm sure it's a similar issue in Russia, where guys are so afraid to die, that they will show up to service on drugs, if they can get them.
As I recall, when this sort of guidance system was in development and undergoing acceptance testing down near Yuma, the crews deliberately aimed the gun 15 degrees off target. The round impacted within a few meters of the intended position, damaging but not destroying the target (IIRC) but most certainly killing anyone in the vicinity of it. For "wild" fire, it was extremely impressive and could only be made possible by constructing and packaging electronics with the endurance to withstand the kinetic force of being fired at supersonic speeds out of a 155mm tube, a remarkable accomplishment in and of itself! (Look up the development of the proximity fuses in WWII to see an even more impressive feat because, with that technology, it was basically akin to mounting an incandescent Edison type light bulb on an artillery shell and having it work in flight!)
The shell also features inertial guidance as backup if GPS is jammed by the target. It would require GPS jamming of basically the entire shell trajectory to seriously impact accuracy, which is not very feasible.
they did. the US stopped sending them to ukraine in their latest support package because they were proven to be ineffective against the russians thanks to EW.
@@chaosXP3RT Complete nonsense, Germany ordered (at least) 255 VULCANO GLR 155mm shells directly from the manufacturer for Ukraine. Last year (at least) 16 Ukrainian soldiers received training in Germany by the manufacturer how to use them and an unspecified number got delivered to Ukraine so far with more getting delivered once they got produced. The version provided to Ukraine is GPS guided and has a range of 70 kilometers when fired by a PzH 2000. The German military itself has no 155mm VULCANO shells in active service, it plans to introduce in 2025 a version that is also laser guided and thus more useful against moving targets.
The PGK-Precision Guidance Kit is the gamechanger Excalibur USE to be. It's $10k & turns dumb shells into laser, GPS, & millimeter wave guided shells. It also has airbrush & safety features for off course shell.
A common mistake is to quote original procurement price, and overlook that decades later the item has far less value to its owner. Newer items filling that need are in place or being built. The actual value is greatly reduced, or even negative if shelf-life requires a rebuild or recert soon. But, of present high value in Ukraine. All in all, many US weapons donations are actually for cost of shipping!
@@manzion7599 Good point many including myself forget about the cost of shipping and transportation into these costs, great insight from you there thanks :)
It also helps when our forces are greatly outnumbered, it allows the artillery to destroy the enemy force in less time due to accuracy and there being no delay from missing the targets, and having to reload
Depends how you look at cost, if you’re of the opinion NATO needs to spend as much on defence as the Russian ministry of offence spends on military equipment then if a $100k excalibur can take put a $1.6 million T-90M then it’s a saving of $1500 000, a bargain by anyone’s standards. Kinda obvious really, Putin has given NATO a really easy cost effective way to remove the threat from Russia forever, why wouldn’t the West support Ukraine for nothing other than self interest?
@@user-oo2sf6fy4s Lancet could have been a threat, but since Russian naZis vermin can’t salvage IMUs and IR cameras from stolen Ukrainian washing machines it’s a non issue.
@@user-oo2sf6fy4sit’s alll about scale We destory hundreds of Russian tanks There newest best tanks They… destroy a few dozen of our oldest vehicles pulled out of repair bays refurnished and shipped to Ukraine
@@ShmuckCanuck I didn’t quite understand you, on the contrary, when Russian tanks are destroyed, they squeal that they say look at the old Soviet shit, and when leopards and bredleys were knocked out, then, you know, there are no invulnerable vehicles, even ultra-modern NATO equipment can be destroyed, and indeed the problem is in the gasket between the steering wheel and the seat, in general, the Ukrainians are to blame for the bad training ...
@@user-oo2sf6fy4s nobody ever thought western vehicles were invincible outside of Russia Do you know how ma bh got blown up in Iraq and afgansitsn Why do you think we have thousands lol
Why, thank the innovators at BAE, Rockwell, Eaton etc. They made this happen And thank me I made the early L1L2 gps antennas withstand the15000G launch shock.
Due to the price tag, I was under the impression that Excalibur rounds required special permission from Command during the Afghan War. Perhaps the unit cost of each round has come down quite a bit.
@@TroPy1n because said dudes in pyjamas fight almost a civ population? Also what’s cheaper? 1 expensive shell hitting the target or 100 missing and killing a bunch of civs in the process? Also the Taliban had much more than AKs my friend.
Their current use in Ukraine is also more strategically important than Afghanistan - Ruzzia is a greater potential threat than the Taliban were at their worst. I’m sure the poor grunts on the ground in Afghanistan might have issue with this statement, but providing the shells to Ukraine means those grunts can stay home for this one. America has one of its two main potential enemies crippled and doesn’t have to shed blood to do it. Win win for them so worth every breathtakingly expensive shot.
@@julianmorriscoyeah it’s much more worthwhile to use destroying a tank or SAM system in a peer conflict. Compared to Afghanistan where you might hit a pickup truck with a mortar on the back.
Pricey, but it hits the target. Compare that to "dumb" artillery shells, that require several rounds to defeat the same target, while exposing the firing unit to counterbattery fire. The loss of a howitzer and crew cost much more than $100,000...
Given that average dumb 155 shell cost around 10-20k and they tend to miss all the time, even with exp crew, i'd say it's worth it, since 1 shot- 1 kill.
US has both the expensive and cheap stuff. Besides Excalibur, they also have M1156 Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) which turns unguided artillery shells to precision guided munitions, and of course the standard "dumb" unguided HE and RAP rounds.
Several years before this conflict began Finland reported that the Russian military were conducting experiments on blocking GPS signals. Without much success by the looks of things.
They seem to block gps quite well in Moscow though. My guess is that it requires vast amounts of energy and towers to block the signals so it can't be done well at the frontline
I'm not sure what to say about that. What I know, is that in northern Norway where I come from, there is occasions where civil aviation encounter Russian gps jamming.
Enough success that they have to suspend civilian flights while the system is in use in Moscow. (Drivers report that their GPS is rendered useless as well.)
Unfortunately, 3000 rounds aren't enough to do what needs to be done. That's why we still had to send DPICM. Even if we had enough rounds available to send, the price tag would be a problem, and the range (while substantially better than standard 155mm) isn't enough for a lot of purposes.
As far as I can see in this war the Excalibur’s greatest benefit is the reduced need for shells. You have to fire a lot of conventional shells to take out a target. That ammunition has to be replaced causing a bigger demand on factories and more volume to ship into the field. A single first time hit has huge cost and effort benefits in the supply chain.
@@HKim0072 and guidance systems are susceptible to jamming. Fine for killing goat herds, not so good once a sample gets reverse-engineered and appropriate counter-measures take hold. Can't do that to a dumb shell.
@@rcmrcm3370 Yeap. It's the mid-tier ones that get screwed. Really expensive or really old ones have different mapping systems. ie Storm Shadows aren't having the same problem. Sounds like we are working on a military GPS that is harder to jam.
Not sure how much to trust this vid: 1:25 Hits targets within a 7 ft radius, 1:50 It possesses a CEP of 33 ft radius (that means 50% of the shells will land beyond that distance from the aimpoint), 2:58 strike with fewer than 7 ft miss distance. Seems more like a sales brochure with here's the impressive sounding enginnering number (CEP) and then still be able to say that it CAN hit targets within 7 ft. While that statement is correct, it doesnt tell you the chances of hitting that close are small (assuming the CEP number is correct).
Although its none of my business, and correct me if I am wrong, I thought it were javelins, M777, Himars, Leo2A6, challenger 2, Bradley etc. to be claimed as GAME CHANGERS not long ago. In addition, if one side is winning the game, why would they need another new equipment to change the game? I am kind of confused here.
While all these weapons have undoubtedly made things very difficult for the Russians, “game changer” is just more useless media hyperbole. I am sure the Ukrainian military does not use such terms even though they see the potential of weapon systems like GLSDB, ATACMS, and F-16’s.
Himars completely stopped any big and successful offensive by Russia since their introduction because Russias logistics couldn't use large depots close to the front anymore. That has been a huge gamechanger.
@@Journeyman53 OK, but the 155mm long range canon is french, original was the « Filloux longue portée » invent during WW1, and was adopted after war by the US army , later more known as « Long Tom »
These shells are extremely expensive. much cheaper to hang a grenade or explosive to a drone. still they have their use and Ukraine needs lots of everything right now.
Ukraine was suppose to be defeated and surrender within two weeks. Now after depleting their men and equipment, Russia is being systematically dislodged from their entrenched defense.
it will end when we stop the ideology of being No.1 iof the plante.....or when our sons are not coming back....the whole chat and weapon-cult is poor and seems to be the end of some decadent human beeing
Earlier I was confused how these were missing targets. Then I realized it was spoofing of the gun crew, not spoofing the round. When Russia spoofed the ground crew they also denied GPS over the target, hence the flight was all INS. But, since launch point was spoofed by a few hundred meters, so was impact. By now, Ukraine are using inertial plus map navigation to orient themselves, then launching. BTW I am sure the round looks at GPS vs INS and if they diverge more than INS drift, rejects all GPS as it is logically spoofed. Anyone confirming or disproving what I wrote here?
@@richardkudrna7503 Well you can see tons of video footage of it successfully striking numerous targets. There was a report about GLMRS being off target, but that was later determined to be overblown misinformation.
@@richardkudrna7503 Yeah, I don't think so. As you say, INS only just increases the CEP. GPS is for fine tuning. As long as the warhead is powerful enough it is always going to be effective.
@@krossbolt4100 according to reports these were at times missing by over 100 meters, well past effective blast range. This is much more than an error explained by normal INS drift. Since the weapon almost certainly compares GPS to max INS drift for reasonability (then dumps GPS), what else can explain the misses? Guidance failure is one possibility, but I find my theory more plausible- that the crews were spoofed. If the crew entered the wrong map location into the INS and the weapon never accepted a GPS update, it will land offset by the map location error plus CEP of INS. What else can explain it?
Every weapon has it's own stratigic use it depends on the military tactics and what target need to be destroyed if you will destroy radar system or tank or even weapon storage then the cost is nothing compared to the enemy loss
As others have posted. It is not 1 particular weapon or munition it is a broader array of superior weaponry that is causing such high losses to Russian forces and will inevitably produce military success for Ukraine forces.
@@dustytrails1 im sure some do directly, but if you take a picture with any spy satellite you can geo locate the exact location using existing topographical maps.
@@looopy2uthey have started advance again after the disaster of game changers counter offensive...mass evacuation for civilians in kharkov right now...so it really is nothing..the orcs learns how to overcome the game changers and counter it...that means they also learning the weakness of NATO as NATO support, train and supply ukraine army but still cannot wiped out the orcs...that is what happened when you under estimated your enemy...the enemy learns many about you and your weakness but you learns nothing about them only assumings. If kiev regime lost this war that means NATO is in trouble because the enemy knows their weakness. That also means western europe will once again under the threat of war.
@@puakagrinder2766 keep telling yourself whatever you need to get yourself through the day. Quarter of a million Russian casualties says something else.
Excalibur Round = Sweden CV90 = Sweden Carl Gustav 84 mm = Sweden Nlaw = Sweden Strv 122 = Sweden 3 P ammo 40/57mm = Sweden Ubot A17 NIP = Sweden Archer artillery = Sweden Bonus round = Sweden JAS39 = gripen Visby klass stelth ship = Sweden RBS 70 = Sweden
Well, Ukraine didn't have much at the start of this war so pretty much every new system gives them additional capabilities while reducing Russias options. That's what a "game changer" is
When people valued lives and when they are against bully people, God will give them enough wisdom to destroy enemies...God hates murderers but protect those who loved peace freedom and progress without coercion...
The Russians are jamming and even corrupting GPS signal in the area so any GPS-guided missile or round goes anywhere but target. Another game changer for sure
I remember the hype around this things ''it is going to be a game changer in ukraine''what happened..??nothing seems to be working and on the other hand now russians have started increasing the use of their own versions of krasnopol and the upgraded ones krasnopol-m2
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnopol_(weapon_system) The russian contrary to Ukraine use this krasnopol since the beginning of this war and based on Wiki, the krasnopol-m2 just began to be produced in 2022? With no seen no spec released about the M2? But spec of the krasnopol show it is way inferior to Excalibur (Just for the range 20km alone with the krasnopol). Still, russian loosing ground anyway to Ukraine force even with this weapon they have since the beginning of this war.
@@CloneDAnon I appreciate your concern, we would like French chateaus or Italian villas for the ordinary Ukranianian, after all we are going through a lot. Now, onto matters of national security, recently our intelligence services have been gracious enough to inform us that the US is developing a 6th generation fighter jet. We demand the aircraft be build in Kyiv, our pilots deserve to be the first the fly the jet and are second to none. Slava Ukraine!
It would be interesting to hear more about the history behind Excalibur, it was co developed by Swedish Bofors and US Raytheon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur
What is the data interface on it? Wired, wireless? How and when are the target coordinates communicated to the ammunition? Does it have a connector and a wired interface, and some programming device is connected to it before it is loaded in the howitzer, or does the targeting happen while the round is loaded in the artillery gun? Is it wireless?
To get the accuracy they are stating here, generally this round would be used in laser-designation mode. It can be guided through GPS, but your coordinates better be spot on. It still requires a forward observer to give an accurate grid designation so the battery can set their elevation, deflection, and powder charge, to bring the round as close to the target as possible. It can glide once reaching the apex of its ballistic arc, and in the terminal phase it'll adjust onto the target. It is very accurate, but the laser designation mode requires the forward observer to paint the target continually with a laser, which creates a problem if the enemy has infrared technology as the person doing the painting would be easily visible. Also, I'd assume these could be foiled with smoke screens in the laser mode too. However, you'd have to know the round is in flight towards your position. Counter battery radar sites could theoretically do this, but they are typically designed to track simple ballistic flights so I'm not sure how helpful that'd be here.
It is a sign of desperation to label every type of weapon a "game changer". In truth, the Ukro-nazis are buggered and will loose the war as they are on the wrong side of history, never mind the wrong side of military practicability. The Russians have the same type of shell, in much larger quantities as they actually get value for their military expenditure. Not so the west. Also, Russian GPS signal jamming effectively reduces the value of the Excalibur and other guided munitions.
If this is so effective as alluded to by the reporter, it is not having any effect on the war. most of these weapons were much vaunted when they were used against Arab tribes or the Taliban. the western weapons are being blown up so much that the British have pulled the challenger from the front line. the abrams tank is absent for the same reason. the leopard is taking a beating, and so as the maxpro.
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I'm amazed that the electronics and inertial guidance system is robust enough to reliably withstand the massive acceleration forces generated when fired from the artillery piece. Impressive!
It's probably one of the reasons for the cost. They had to engineer the hell out of it.
Look what they did with the Mars Landers.
When I was in ROTC, we were just learning about “guided artillery rounds”. Then (circa 1980), those guidance systems had to continue operating after surviving 7,000g coming out of the barrel.
Today I am hearing figures that are past 10,000g. I can’t even guess how those things are engineered.
About 7000G by my reckoning
Consider that during WW2 they had the proximity fuse: an entire radar emitter/receiver built in an AA shell, using glass radio valves (tubes).
Raytheon and BAE both manufacture the Excalibur. Raytheon designed and developed the GPS/SAL guidance system including the fins, while BAE was responsible for the payload and base.
Not enough! Our intelligence services have found the US is developing 6th gen fighter aircraft. We want the factory to be set up in Kyiv immediately so our brave pilots can defend our skies. We understand America is our friend but for how long must we wait for the aircraft factory!!
@@justsain3236 Brilliant. Put an aircraft factory in Kyiv. I wonder what the first thing targeted on the next missile strike would be. What then?
@@brandon8224Not to worry! Ukraine will have sold it to China before it ever gets bombed.
The weapons suitable to fight against weak country. Such as Iraq, Libya & Ex Yugoslavia. Not effective in Ukraine compare to Russian's shovels.
@@brandon8224they wouldn’t blow it up they would steal the secret info then blow it up.
A "ground breaking" " game changer". How many times do we need to hear this over and over?
Would be surprise if people know the truth. They sent game changer accuracy weapons to Ukraine but the actual problem isn't quality, it's quantity, and how to use those things with combine arms force
To be fair - it DOES break ground. Pretty well by the looks of it..
Also, if you got hit by one I'm sure it'd change your game 🤣
just think about it as "artillery sniper"..the real problem is the target acquisition
Why not send the money in neat packages to the enemy. They just pick it up and go home.
Being taken out of service in ukraine. Being jammed by Russians.
The Excalibur is not a game changer because of its extreme cost. What is game changer is the low cost precision guidance kit that can be screwed in place of a fuse on a standard artillery shell, PGK. This enables an ordinary shell to have high accuracy of a GPS munition allong with the ability ,air burst, contact detonate, or penetrate detonation. The kit will also deactivate the shell if it goes off target so artillery using these kits can be used much closer to friendly troops with out the risk of accidentally hitting one's own friendly troops. Because of this system's low cost and high tec abilities this system is a true game changer.
It’s still a game changer because can destroy a target with 1 round, minimizing the round consumption and useless destruction
Himars
PGK costs about $13k/kit with shorter range. With counter-battery radars and counter-artillery being the top mission, Excalibur does its job very well for that price. Almost a one shot, one kill capability.
@@leneanderthalien don't forget counter-battery reaction! I think this is key because their counter-battery won't be able to lock on after one or two shots.
@@fanech14 $500k for an M31 in a HIMARs. That six-shot salvo is $3M.
This shell was developed in Sweden by BAE Systems Bofors (body, payload, ballistics) and Raytheon (USA) which did the GPS guidance. It was tested using the Archer (Swedish) self propelled artillery.
Sweden has a hand in a lot of these advanced munitions. Bonus Artillery shell and the STRIX 120mms Mortar shell. Both precision and designed to take out armor.
Then the is the hand held systems NLAW , AT4 and Carl Gustaf.
It was developed by the US Army and Raytheon was the prime manufacturing contractor in collaboration with BAE
The Charlie G is getting in its licks against Russia, for sure. We welcome Sweden into NATO!
Gee, does anyone think Sweden will be an asset addition to the NATO alliance?
@@manzion7599 Yes for sure as Sweden and Finland together are excellent additions and are at the top end of cutting edge of technologies in a few areas.
@@manzion7599 Everyone but you, apparently. Between Sweden, Finland and Estonia, Russia's Kaliningrad enclave and only warm-water port not subject to the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits are worthless. Now NATO will reinforce the "trip-wire" troop detachment in the Suwalki Gap in preparation for a move on Lithuania.
I love the way they roast Orcs.
Worth every penny.
roast dorks, watch out.
That comment aged like milk.
The term "game changer", has been a game changer
Lol, love that one
US now has a smart bullet shot from a rifle that follows the target.
they do but its not being implemented in military use
It's just a meme!!!! 🤷🤦♂️🤣
I was a 13b in the Army and when getting trained on these they said you can go thru a windshield from 30km
Wow a 155 mm artillery shell can go through a windshield?! At 30 km?! How impressive (sarcastically speaking)
@@wogelson this is true believe it or not.
@@wogelson You hadn't worked out that they were talking about the accuracy, not the penetrating power, had you. I hope for your sake that no-one who knows you read your post.
... and choose between driver and passenger :D
They most definitely can
The Canadian army liked these things so much; we used them instead of sir supoet for a lot of afgansitsn because it was just as accurate but you could get it on target within minutes instead of waitng around for an aircraft to be available and fly to you
There is no single game changer in this war. But the accumulation and combination of all this advanced systems will save many ukrainian lives and this will make all the difference
Its actually the opposite. The longer they fight the more ukrainians will be killed.
I remember the hype around this things ''it is going to be a game changer in ukraine''what happened..??nothing seems to be working and on the other hand now russians have started increasing the use of their own versions of krasnopol and the upgraded ones krasnopol-m2
@@briant5685 the munitions are 10x expensive and 4x more accurate. Wars a grift
The Russians stops doing the military parade convoy. if you look it that way it really change the game
@@briant5685 have you tried actually looking.
The Excalibur round is very impressive.
The increase in range is amazing.
When I was in Vietnam the M114A1 using 155 mm had a maximum range of 11 miles, so the Excalibur has more than doubled the range. With the GPS system that makes it possible to still be accurate at that range.
I am concerned about the cost of it. With standard shells costing only a hundred each the Excalibur definitely should be saved for those special occasions where the standard shell cannot reach.
In training, 1967, I was told the standard 155mm was accurate enough to land on a standard army size blanket repeatedly at the 11 mile maximum distance. That to me is accurate enough to be praiseworthy and I'm certain the newer 155 howitzers are at least as accurate as our old WWII howitzers were. We occasionally used the 155 to create foxholes for troops who had been pinned down. We fired really close to them, had to use special aiming tools for accuracy, and they would crawl into the hole our shells made. Sometimes we fired the shells to make the holes then fired smoke rounds so the VC could not see them.
If you watch videos of the Excaliber, you will see flames come out the back. This is known as "base bleed", which smooths out the airflow around the tail of the round, and this is what gives it that extra range.
But think of the Excalibur as a weapon that functions as part of a system. Also in the Ukraine inventory is the M712 Copperhead, which is laser guided. And in today's modern battlefield, a drone marks the target, the Copperhead finishes it off. Then you add the 155 mm DPICM cluster to wipe out foxholes. The 155 has become much more than an artillery piece, it is a versatile delivery system for a large range of nasty surprises for the enemy.
But it is nice to have such a weapon that is almost guaranteed to nail a high value target first shot.
A random RUclips promo with the Excalibur made me watch this, but your comment is the thing I learnt of value. Amazing to think foxholes were created by accurate friendly intention. True team work. Thanks for the insight.
Nicely Explained
I really liked this video! Like your spectacular videos as well, but this is a good addition! If you have the time/resources, please make more! 👍😊
40 km sniper. 10m is a direct hit in artillery term, and that wasn't an M198. D20, I think.
I think it has an accuracy of 2 m radius which is like zero for 155 mm.
an excellent video - very organized with excellent production values
As far, already so much game changers didn't change the game in Ukraine !
Well, the game isn't going well. Russia will eventually win, but at the cost of a full generation of men. No war is worth that much bloodshed, even if it's a necessary war, and this one isn't. Russia will suffer a population collapse from the loss, it already was suffering from population issues before the war.
That's because Ukraine itself is not a game changer. 😂😂😂
@@mattycakes1161 at least they succeded in stoping the drug abuse epidemy in their country... it's terrible for everybody. I'm not on russian side, I'm just sad that my country (France) pushes so hard for the pursuit of this stupid silly crazy war between two brother people
@@annonymous3871 I seriously doubt this helped the drug problem, it probably made it worse in areas where people fled to in Ukraine, drugs are probably all some of them have now. I'm sure it's a similar issue in Russia, where guys are so afraid to die, that they will show up to service on drugs, if they can get them.
One shot one kill 👍🏻
There are several versions. One that targets on a laser designator and even one that can be adjusted for target during flight.
There is no laser guided Excalibur. You’re thinking about the Copperhead.
For all the game changers in the Ukraine the game seems pretty much the same.
Probably need to count the amount of dead or injured orcs I bet its around 750,000. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦.
I might buy one for Christmas.
Good for home defense
@@fdk7014 Good for massshootings too.
As I recall, when this sort of guidance system was in development and undergoing acceptance testing down near Yuma, the crews deliberately aimed the gun 15 degrees off target. The round impacted within a few meters of the intended position, damaging but not destroying the target (IIRC) but most certainly killing anyone in the vicinity of it. For "wild" fire, it was extremely impressive and could only be made possible by constructing and packaging electronics with the endurance to withstand the kinetic force of being fired at supersonic speeds out of a 155mm tube, a remarkable accomplishment in and of itself! (Look up the development of the proximity fuses in WWII to see an even more impressive feat because, with that technology, it was basically akin to mounting an incandescent Edison type light bulb on an artillery shell and having it work in flight!)
Gee, it worked great until it faced a sophisticated adversary. The Russians are jamming the GPS signals to the Excalibur. It misses a lot.
@@georgemiller151 The presence of counter measures does not negate the significance of the achievement.
ok putinbot@@georgemiller151
I've heard that Russia has learned that it can deploy GPS disabling electronics in the area under attack to throw these shells greatly off target.
That's when you need a weapon that can home in on the disabling signal...
Or a separate military GPS system that uses encoded information.
The shell also features inertial guidance as backup if GPS is jammed by the target. It would require GPS jamming of basically the entire shell trajectory to seriously impact accuracy, which is not very feasible.
they did. the US stopped sending them to ukraine in their latest support package because they were proven to be ineffective against the russians thanks to EW.
The companies producing the shells need to stop price gouging the military. $80k a round is insane.
The Germans have a similar round called Vulcano. Ukraine was suppose to get some of these but Germany only has a limited number.
sadly all of our stuff is limited....
Theyll make more. Even if Russia leaves tomorrow weapons will keep flowing in to reinforce the buffer
So Germany lied? They said "Ukraine is supposed to get our Vulcano"? Then said "Oh, we only have a few. Ukraine doesn't get any."?
La munizione Vulcano è italiana, prodotta da Oto Melara più di 10 anni fa, a guida gps e laser
@@chaosXP3RT
Complete nonsense, Germany ordered (at least) 255 VULCANO GLR 155mm shells directly from the manufacturer for Ukraine.
Last year (at least) 16 Ukrainian soldiers received training in Germany by the manufacturer how to use them and an unspecified number got delivered to Ukraine so far with more getting delivered once they got produced.
The version provided to Ukraine is GPS guided and has a range of 70 kilometers when fired by a PzH 2000.
The German military itself has no 155mm VULCANO shells in active service, it plans to introduce in 2025 a version that is also laser guided and thus more useful against moving targets.
The PGK-Precision Guidance Kit is the gamechanger Excalibur USE to be. It's $10k & turns dumb shells into laser, GPS, & millimeter wave guided shells. It also has airbrush & safety features for off course shell.
A common mistake is to quote original procurement price, and overlook that decades later the item has far less value to its owner. Newer items filling that need are in place or being built. The actual value is greatly reduced, or even negative if shelf-life requires a rebuild or recert soon. But, of present high value in Ukraine. All in all, many US weapons donations are actually for cost of shipping!
@@manzion7599 Good point many including myself forget about the cost of shipping and transportation into these costs, great insight from you there thanks :)
Ukraine needs MORE! MORE! of those Excaliburs
Seem's that NATO just can't deliver
You can pay for them.
Damn impressive results when paired-up with an observation drone FO that can give precise GPS coords. 🎯💥👏👍
As long as GPS isn't jammed?
Inertial guided too.
Jammed you say? Hmm...
It also helps when our forces are greatly outnumbered, it allows the artillery to destroy the enemy force in less time due to accuracy and there being no delay from missing the targets, and having to reload
Interesting that you didn't mention that it is also compatible with the French Caesar.
Excalibur is a very Good round. The biggest problem is to get a CAT 1 grid of the target to get the best result.
Depends how you look at cost, if you’re of the opinion NATO needs to spend as much on defence as the Russian ministry of offence spends on military equipment then if a $100k excalibur can take put a $1.6 million T-90M then it’s a saving of $1500 000, a bargain by anyone’s standards. Kinda obvious really, Putin has given NATO a really easy cost effective way to remove the threat from Russia forever, why wouldn’t the West support Ukraine for nothing other than self interest?
Well, you compared a shell and a tank, and calculate how much one lancet and a leaky bucket of bolts cost - a leopard, a NATO vegetable ...
@@user-oo2sf6fy4s Lancet could have been a threat, but since Russian naZis vermin can’t salvage IMUs and IR cameras from stolen Ukrainian washing machines it’s a non issue.
@@user-oo2sf6fy4sit’s alll about scale
We destory hundreds of Russian tanks
There newest best tanks
They… destroy a few dozen of our oldest vehicles pulled out of repair bays refurnished and shipped to Ukraine
@@ShmuckCanuck I didn’t quite understand you, on the contrary, when Russian tanks are destroyed, they squeal that they say look at the old Soviet shit, and when leopards and bredleys were knocked out, then, you know, there are no invulnerable vehicles, even ultra-modern NATO equipment can be destroyed, and indeed the problem is in the gasket between the steering wheel and the seat, in general, the Ukrainians are to blame for the bad training ...
@@user-oo2sf6fy4s nobody ever thought western vehicles were invincible outside of Russia
Do you know how ma bh got blown up in Iraq and afgansitsn
Why do you think we have thousands lol
God bless America 🇺🇸
This must be game-changer number 7, I think
I believe a big thank you has to go out to Sandy Munro for these.
Why, thank the innovators at BAE, Rockwell, Eaton etc.
They made this happen
And thank me I made the early L1L2 gps antennas withstand the15000G launch shock.
@@robertweber1816 From what I understand he was brought in when others were having issues. But yes thank you it's absolutely amazing bit of tech.
when you see someone say game changer you no its lies and all based on hopes and dreams
Except when it is actually a game changer, like this Excalibur. Right?
Due to the price tag, I was under the impression that Excalibur rounds required special permission from Command during the Afghan War. Perhaps the unit cost of each round has come down quite a bit.
@@TroPy1n because said dudes in pyjamas fight almost a civ population?
Also what’s cheaper? 1 expensive shell hitting the target or 100 missing and killing a bunch of civs in the process?
Also the Taliban had much more than AKs my friend.
the costs have come down considerably with mass production now.
The great sheepherder 25 year waste of $ 2 trillion dollars! We Americans are the world biggest suckers!
Their current use in Ukraine is also more strategically important than Afghanistan - Ruzzia is a greater potential threat than the Taliban were at their worst. I’m sure the poor grunts on the ground in Afghanistan might have issue with this statement, but providing the shells to Ukraine means those grunts can stay home for this one. America has one of its two main potential enemies crippled and doesn’t have to shed blood to do it. Win win for them so worth every breathtakingly expensive shot.
@@julianmorriscoyeah it’s much more worthwhile to use destroying a tank or SAM system in a peer conflict. Compared to Afghanistan where you might hit a pickup truck with a mortar on the back.
Gamechanger #127. If we look at the track record of previous ''gamechangers''..... Results will be pretty much the same.
each round is 100k?
Pricey, but it hits the target. Compare that to "dumb" artillery shells, that require several rounds to defeat the same target, while exposing the firing unit to counterbattery fire. The loss of a howitzer and crew cost much more than $100,000...
Given that average dumb 155 shell cost around 10-20k and they tend to miss all the time, even with exp crew, i'd say it's worth it, since 1 shot- 1 kill.
@@anonymousfx5254 no, they don't cost 10k lol
US has both the expensive and cheap stuff. Besides Excalibur, they also have M1156 Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) which turns unguided artillery shells to precision guided munitions, and of course the standard "dumb" unguided HE and RAP rounds.
Another game changer ? how many are we up to now ?
Let’s see… NLAW, Javelin, HIMARS, Excalibur and Storm Shadow. I get five. How many do you get?
When Ukraine gets ATACMS and DPICM we’ll have two more.
Several years before this conflict began Finland reported that the Russian military were conducting experiments on blocking GPS signals. Without much success by the looks of things.
id check again, a majority of NATO systems are useless due to Russian EW. Russia arent as backward as the MSM tell you.
They seem to block gps quite well in Moscow though. My guess is that it requires vast amounts of energy and towers to block the signals so it can't be done well at the frontline
I'm not sure what to say about that. What I know, is that in northern Norway where I come from, there is occasions where civil aviation encounter Russian gps jamming.
Enough success that they have to suspend civilian flights while the system is in use in Moscow. (Drivers report that their GPS is rendered useless as well.)
Could you imagine this round coming out of the 16" Battleship Gun? This is what America needs to build and put back in service.
Unfortunately, 3000 rounds aren't enough to do what needs to be done. That's why we still had to send DPICM. Even if we had enough rounds available to send, the price tag would be a problem, and the range (while substantially better than standard 155mm) isn't enough for a lot of purposes.
When are you leaving for Ukraine? 😂🤡
The Russians can only dream of these shells through their vodka induced haze
As far as I can see in this war the Excalibur’s greatest benefit is the reduced need for shells. You have to fire a lot of conventional shells to take out a target. That ammunition has to be replaced causing a bigger demand on factories and more volume to ship into the field. A single first time hit has huge cost and effort benefits in the supply chain.
The problem is its cost. These are $110K+. Standard 155mm shells are way way cheaper. Sometimes quantity is needed over quality.
@@HKim0072 and guidance systems are susceptible to jamming. Fine for killing goat herds, not so good once a sample gets reverse-engineered and appropriate counter-measures take hold. Can't do that to a dumb shell.
@@rcmrcm3370 Yeap. It's the mid-tier ones that get screwed. Really expensive or really old ones have different mapping systems. ie Storm Shadows aren't having the same problem.
Sounds like we are working on a military GPS that is harder to jam.
Not sure how much to trust this vid: 1:25 Hits targets within a 7 ft radius, 1:50 It possesses a CEP of 33 ft radius (that means 50% of the shells will land beyond that distance from the aimpoint), 2:58 strike with fewer than 7 ft miss distance. Seems more like a sales brochure with here's the impressive sounding enginnering number (CEP) and then still be able to say that it CAN hit targets within 7 ft. While that statement is correct, it doesnt tell you the chances of hitting that close are small (assuming the CEP number is correct).
Although its none of my business, and correct me if I am wrong, I thought it were javelins, M777, Himars, Leo2A6, challenger 2, Bradley etc. to be claimed as GAME CHANGERS not long ago. In addition, if one side is winning the game, why would they need another new equipment to change the game? I am kind of confused here.
No you just have your bullshit detector still functional.
Because together they are game changers
@@user-de6vc3lw2x I am just wondering how you are going to cope when inevitably they are not......
While all these weapons have undoubtedly made things very difficult for the Russians, “game changer” is just more useless media hyperbole. I am sure the Ukrainian military does not use such terms even though they see the potential of weapon systems like GLSDB, ATACMS, and F-16’s.
Himars completely stopped any big and successful offensive by Russia since their introduction because Russias logistics couldn't use large depots close to the front anymore. That has been a huge gamechanger.
this is the power that drives the hand that drinks Excalibur : a mighty lager with the world's first great taste
of fish.
At this point, we might as well call this war the war of "game changers". 🤡🤣
When Ukraine was originally written off as hopeless, and now is beating back Russia all the way, game changer aptly applies.
@@donaldclifford5763 good dope, so Ukraine replaced Afghanistan as drugs smuggling center, sniff some with zElenskyi
The name alone reminds of a James Bond movie we have to stop the Excalibur or were all doomed Smithers
I think the name Excalibur comes from the King Arthur Legend.
For some funny reason you forgot to mention the excellent french Caesar canon as compatible with Excalibur rounds.
Also the M777 is a British invention, although this hardly gets a mention anywhere. The French Caesar is also a brilliant invention.
@@Journeyman53 OK, but the 155mm long range canon is french, original was the « Filloux longue portée » invent during WW1, and was adopted after war by the US army , later more known as « Long Tom »
@@Journeyman53 Yes, both the 777 and Caesar burn nicely on the West Eurasian steppes.
two game changers in two days good job making me ROFL 🤣
The Russians have krasnopol too
shovels ))
These shells are extremely expensive. much cheaper to hang a grenade or explosive to a drone. still they have their use and Ukraine needs lots of everything right now.
Everything they get is a game changer yet they haven’t changed the outcome of their failed offensive
Ukraine was suppose to be defeated and surrender within two weeks. Now after depleting their men and equipment, Russia is being systematically dislodged from their entrenched defense.
@@donaldclifford5763 dopeterr just a putin putz, you are right
.............Another Game Changer in Ukraine!!
an other "Game changer"...it's a fucking artily shell.
The round shown in the thumbnail was not a 982 it is a 795 with a m739a1 pd/delay fuze.
How far does it go?!
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Can it reach the bunker of mr.pooptin in moscow.
40 km was mentioned. The range has nothing to do with the GPS guidance. The range is decided by propellant charge.
A bloody long way
it will end when we stop the ideology of being No.1 iof the plante.....or when our sons are not coming back....the whole chat and weapon-cult is poor and seems to be the end of some decadent human beeing
Lol they call every knew piece of equipment that is sent a "gamechanger"
We have heard this verbose a lot about every weapon being a game changer eg leopard thank, Himas, Bradley tank etc
Only if it come in numbers, working and in time. To many if for gamechanger.
Slava ukraine from sri lanka 🇱🇰
Your piss poor country's 90% of weapons are from Russia 😅
100,000 vs a few hundred dollars is not a small amount .
Earlier I was confused how these were missing targets. Then I realized it was spoofing of the gun crew, not spoofing the round. When Russia spoofed the ground crew they also denied GPS over the target, hence the flight was all INS. But, since launch point was spoofed by a few hundred meters, so was impact. By now, Ukraine are using inertial plus map navigation to orient themselves, then launching. BTW I am sure the round looks at GPS vs INS and if they diverge more than INS drift, rejects all GPS as it is logically spoofed. Anyone confirming or disproving what I wrote here?
Who says that Excalibur was missing? It’s always used an INS system which isn’t jammable.
@@Thetequilashooter1 widespread news reporting about missing targets. Including the leaks.
@@richardkudrna7503 Well you can see tons of video footage of it successfully striking numerous targets. There was a report about GLMRS being off target, but that was later determined to be overblown misinformation.
@@richardkudrna7503 Yeah, I don't think so. As you say, INS only just increases the CEP. GPS is for fine tuning. As long as the warhead is powerful enough it is always going to be effective.
@@krossbolt4100 according to reports these were at times missing by over 100 meters, well past effective blast range. This is much more than an error explained by normal INS drift. Since the weapon almost certainly compares GPS to max INS drift for reasonability (then dumps GPS), what else can explain the misses? Guidance failure is one possibility, but I find my theory more plausible- that the crews were spoofed. If the crew entered the wrong map location into the INS and the weapon never accepted a GPS update, it will land offset by the map location error plus CEP of INS. What else can explain it?
Ukraine has those shells since summer 2022. As you see it's not game changer judging by zero counteroffensive results.
dead Ukrainians and equipment by the train load is not zero results.
Every weapon has it's own stratigic use it depends on the military tactics and what target need to be destroyed if you will destroy radar system or tank or even weapon storage then the cost is nothing compared to the enemy loss
Still shovels are whacking the daylight out of these game changing ammunition.
As others have posted. It is not 1 particular weapon or munition it is a broader array of superior weaponry that is causing such high losses to Russian forces and will inevitably produce military success for Ukraine forces.
and ruzzia is proud of their krasnopol. 🤣🤣
@@stormbyrd4652That is laser guided,meaning you need to laze the target,and that means close range
@@mastermariner490 well what I want to say is that krasnopol is being pushed by pro orcs as way better than Excalibur.
NAZI forces are sucks sesfull one city at the time. Mariuopol, Bakhmut,.....! Dream on dude!
@@stormbyrd4652 Well they couldnt be more wrong then
Is the cluster munition a game changer?
The notion of "game changer" eerily resembles 1945 Germany's misplaced reliance on wonder weapons.
How do they get the target coordinates for input to these weapons? Can a drone be used to somehow determine the precise gps location of a target?
Drone with GPS or satilites.
@@Typexviiib Are US satellites giving GPS?
@@dustytrails1 im sure some do directly, but if you take a picture with any spy satellite you can geo locate the exact location using existing topographical maps.
Oh LOOK, another game changer 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Only a 6% success rate with these recently due to improvement in jamming devices
So many "game changers" has been sent to Ukraine so far and yet what we have seen is nothing but a stalemate.
only stale sitting safe far away, meat being ground is no fun.
Ukraine has stopped the advance of one of the world's largest armies...I don't think that is nothing.!
@@looopy2uthey have started advance again after the disaster of game changers counter offensive...mass evacuation for civilians in kharkov right now...so it really is nothing..the orcs learns how to overcome the game changers and counter it...that means they also learning the weakness of NATO as NATO support, train and supply ukraine army but still cannot wiped out the orcs...that is what happened when you under estimated your enemy...the enemy learns many about you and your weakness but you learns nothing about them only assumings. If kiev regime lost this war that means NATO is in trouble because the enemy knows their weakness. That also means western europe will once again under the threat of war.
@@puakagrinder2766 keep telling yourself whatever you need to get yourself through the day. Quarter of a million Russian casualties says something else.
@@looopy2u what about 1/3 casualties of ukraine? What it says about it? Winning? Are you zelensky wannabe?
One Camoflauged Barge + 15 Excalibur Rounds = Ruined Kerch Bridge
Excalibur Round = Sweden
CV90 = Sweden
Carl Gustav 84 mm = Sweden
Nlaw = Sweden
Strv 122 = Sweden
3 P ammo 40/57mm = Sweden
Ubot A17 NIP = Sweden
Archer artillery = Sweden
Bonus round = Sweden
JAS39 = gripen
Visby klass stelth ship = Sweden
RBS 70 = Sweden
No one wants the Gripen but the do have some good weapons but in very small quantities . I like Sweden better than I like German stuff
Abba = Sweden
Swedish tech is the best!
How many game changing weapons are we going to see ?? I want to know so i can plan ahead
Well, Ukraine didn't have much at the start of this war so pretty much every new system gives them additional capabilities while reducing Russias options. That's what a "game changer" is
Never too many. No need to plan.
Everything so far has been a " game changer" 🤣🤣🤣
It has. How's that 1 hour 22 minute drive to Kyiv going?
Let's hope. No need for cynics.
When people valued lives and when they are against bully people, God will give them enough wisdom to destroy enemies...God hates murderers but protect those who loved peace freedom and progress without coercion...
The Russians are jamming and even corrupting GPS signal in the area so any GPS-guided missile or round goes anywhere but target.
Another game changer for sure
Inertial guided
The Price Of Such A New Round Is A Bad Joke!
This is a long ad.
At a $150,000. a shot if certainly is an "eye opener" to anyone watching their budget.
Bloody price of a cheap house every shot... Maybe we should just pay the russians to stop
Damn another new game changer and more hundreds of million spent on Ukraine.
The Excalibur is probably already obsolete. It’s too easy to jam it’s GPS guidance.
I remember the hype around this things ''it is going to be a game changer in ukraine''what happened..??nothing seems to be working and on the other hand now russians have started increasing the use of their own versions of krasnopol and the upgraded ones krasnopol-m2
Really , one round, one kill ! metrologically going to work on high value targets , and as the commentator said , the Russians have no time to react
Oh it works alright as the Russians have found out.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnopol_(weapon_system) The russian contrary to Ukraine use this krasnopol since the beginning of this war and based on Wiki, the krasnopol-m2 just began to be produced in 2022? With no seen no spec released about the M2? But spec of the krasnopol show it is way inferior to Excalibur (Just for the range 20km alone with the krasnopol). Still, russian loosing ground anyway to Ukraine force even with this weapon they have since the beginning of this war.
Russian losses are 10 times more than the combined US losses in both Afghanistan and Iraq. So that certainly speaks something significant.
Cluster Excalibur Round
This is good but not enough, we would like F-22 and B-2 bombers aswell. Our pilots are the best and will make good use of these.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
...and a few more houses in the West for Elensky?
@@CloneDAnon I appreciate your concern, we would like French chateaus or Italian villas for the ordinary Ukranianian, after all we are going through a lot.
Now, onto matters of national security, recently our intelligence services have been gracious enough to inform us that the US is developing a 6th generation fighter jet. We demand the aircraft be build in Kyiv, our pilots deserve to be the first the fly the jet and are second to none. Slava Ukraine!
holy shit, imagine telling a WW2 artillery man about this - "our artillery can hit a *truck* 25 miles away" lol
It would be interesting to hear more about the history behind Excalibur, it was co developed by Swedish Bofors and US Raytheon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur
What is the data interface on it? Wired, wireless? How and when are the target coordinates communicated to the ammunition? Does it have a connector and a wired interface, and some programming device is connected to it before it is loaded in the howitzer, or does the targeting happen while the round is loaded in the artillery gun? Is it wireless?
To get the accuracy they are stating here, generally this round would be used in laser-designation mode. It can be guided through GPS, but your coordinates better be spot on. It still requires a forward observer to give an accurate grid designation so the battery can set their elevation, deflection, and powder charge, to bring the round as close to the target as possible. It can glide once reaching the apex of its ballistic arc, and in the terminal phase it'll adjust onto the target. It is very accurate, but the laser designation mode requires the forward observer to paint the target continually with a laser, which creates a problem if the enemy has infrared technology as the person doing the painting would be easily visible. Also, I'd assume these could be foiled with smoke screens in the laser mode too. However, you'd have to know the round is in flight towards your position. Counter battery radar sites could theoretically do this, but they are typically designed to track simple ballistic flights so I'm not sure how helpful that'd be here.
Raytheon actually made these. Then gave a contract to BAE
Give a ☮️✌️ peace a chance 🙏 xx
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High ground preferable level needed low ground not usually wanted
It is a sign of desperation to label every type of weapon a "game changer". In truth, the Ukro-nazis are buggered and will loose the war as they are on the wrong side of history, never mind the wrong side of military practicability.
The Russians have the same type of shell, in much larger quantities as they actually get value for their military expenditure. Not so the west.
Also, Russian GPS signal jamming effectively reduces the value of the Excalibur and other guided munitions.
Why is this video not using metric? Is there any military in the world that uses imperial?
If this is so effective as alluded to by the reporter, it is not having any effect on the war. most of these weapons were much vaunted when they were used against Arab tribes or the Taliban. the western weapons are being blown up so much that the British have pulled the challenger from the front line. the abrams tank is absent for the same reason. the leopard is taking a beating, and so as the maxpro.