Enhanced Lethality Cannon Munitions
Abstract
The Enhanced Lethality Cannon Munitions (ELCM) project evaluates, develops, matures, and demonstrates new lethality technologies for 155mm cannon artillery munitions and evaluates their effectiveness in mitigating evolving and derived capability gaps, and support transition to Engineering Manufacturing Development (EMD). The ELCM project prototypes and accelerates the maturation of enhanced lethality technologies, such as Lithographic Fragmentation Technology (LFT) or pre-formed fragmentation, for 155mm cannon artillery munitions. The ELCM project accelerates the development and maturation of LFT for subsequent integration on the 155mm XM1128 high explosive projectile per HQDA G-8 Directed Requirement for a Rapid Bridging Solution for the 155mm Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition, 22 December 2016. ELCM also supports prototyping of enhanced lethality technologies applicable to 155mm cannon artillery munitions, including prototyping of projectile design, explosive formulations, fragmentation, and software for the 155mm XM1113 effort, which is a potential long-range cannon projectile that will increase range by 10km or greater and contain twice as much rocket motor grains as the current 155mm long range cannon projectile that is now obsolete. The design requires increased lethality since the projectile contains a reduced amount of explosive to make room for the increased amount of rocket motor grains required for increased range. ELCM addresses requirements for increased lethality above the current U.S. Army go-to-war 155mm high explosive unitary projectiles, the M795 Insensitive Munition and obsolete M549A1 Unitary Munition.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- EU1_0603639A_4_2040_PB_2019
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