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Army Aims To Push Extended Range Cannon Artillery’s Lethality, Rate Of Fire In 2021

Army Aims To Push Extended Range Cannon Artillery’s Lethality, Rate Of Fire In 2021
Extended Range Cannon Artillery. Photo: U.S. Army

The Army remains on track for initial fielding in 2023 of its new Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) system, designed to hit targets out to 70 kilometers, with plans this year to demonstrate an autoloader for the cannon and conduct a shot with the new Excalibur Hit-to-Kill guided munition. Brig. Gen. John Rafferty, director of the Army’s Long Range Precision Fires Cross Functional Team, told Defense Daily his team is seeing success with a small business cohort program aimed at…

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