Excalibur

Excalibur is a GPS/IMU guided 155 mm Artillery projectile which navigates to within a few metres of the predetermined target, already at the first shot.

The guidance is executed by canards, located on the front end of the projectile, controlled from the on board Guidance, Navigation and Control system getting its location from the GPS satellites.

Excalibur will enhance the range of the Artillery system to reach beyond 50 km, and the target is hit with the same high precision even at the longest ranges.

For target location updates during flight an up-link to the projectile is provided.

The projectile is modular in design and can be provided with various types of payloads.

Excalibur can deliver sensor-fuzed submunition as e.g. the BONUS for hard targets, DPICM type bomblets or a unitary warhead for Army or Navy type targets.

The development and production of Excalibur is an International Co-operation program between the US Army and Swedish Defence Materiel Administration on the customer side and Raytheon Missile Systems and Bofors Defence on the industry side.

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