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BAE Systems Looking To Offer Archer For Army’s 155mm Mobile Howitzer Competition

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, October 19th, 2020

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BAE Systems Looking To Offer Archer For Army’s 155mm Mobile Howitzer Competition

BAE Systems' Archer. Photo: BAE Systems

BAE Systems is looking to offer its Archer 155mm gun system for the Army’s effort to find a new mobile howitzer, the company said Monday, with the service planning to hold a “shoot off” beginning in early 2021. The Archer is a fully automated weapon system, already in service in Sweden, and has a 52-caliber cannon qualified to fire the BONUS anti-armor ammunition and Excalibur precision-guided munition. “[Archer] is a production-ready system. It has a high manufacturing-readiness level. It’s a…

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