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Excalibur missile deadly accurate

Mar 11, 07 10:55 PM PDT

Excalibur missile deadly accurate

Raytheon has been working on the Excalibur GPS-guided artillery for 8 years now, and it is finally ready for deployment. Initial testing showed deadly accuracy as these artilleries managed to lock onto and hit their targets with an error margin of just 10 meters when fired from 24km away and aimed 15 degrees off target. While this development is interesting, it still remains to be seen how GPS signals will be steady enough during a cloudy day for use with the Excalibur. Just in case Osama bin Laden is reading this and own's one of those high end GPS-equipped devices, he'd best head off somewhere with depressing weather all year round.

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By Robert Trisler , 28/03/07 2:59 PM (CommentID #124949)


I am pleased the new version of Excalibur is all it has promised. I too have not had interference from the clouds or weather when using GPS. That is not to say it is impossible. When the missles' intended results are not compromised by the trauma to the warhead during ignition we will have a winner. Thank you to the engineers at Raytheon.

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By Phreqd , 14/03/07 10:49 AM (CommentID #116546)


I've never known GPS signals to be affected by a cloudy day or adverse weather conditions. I have several gps units and they all function perfectly under all weather conditions.

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