Converts howitzers to a sniper rifle: What good excalibur shells that are in the Armed Forces

Video of use by Ukrainian high -precision military shells M982 Excalibur, along with a portable inductive inductive artillery (EPIAFS) for projectile programming, appeared on the network. Excalibur is a Swedish-American development of a 155-mm artillery projectile that fits a number of standard NATO artillery systems. It is controlled by GPS using the steering wheel, folding from the top of the ballistic arc to the target. According to Owen, the ammunition has very high accuracy.

Its probable circular deviation is only 5 meters, the test was shown even 1. 6 meters. "In fact, it turns the 155-mm howitzers into a large caliber sniper rifles capable of impressive single targets for tens of kilometers," the expert writes. A circular probable deviation is a circle within which a projectile will fall in 50% of cases. Another 47% of the shells will fall into the circle twice as much as the first. The rest will fall even more.

In the case of Excalibur, this means that every second projectile will fall into the first 5-meter circle, 43. 7% will fall into the second 10-meter circle, and only 0. 2% of the shells will enter a circle of 15 meters. According to Raytheon manufacturer, it will take up to 10 ordinary shells to achieve the accuracy of one excalibur. The high accuracy of Excalibur ammunition allows you to destroy a Russian tank with and its likelihood of 93. 7%. The length of the T-72 housing is 6. 95 meters and 3.

59 meters wide. The tank is perfectly placed in this 5-meter deviation ring. At the same time, the historian notes that if the projectile gets into the upper projection of the tank, it is the end of the game for him. The crew will not have a chance to survive because it will fly a 22-kg of a fugas explosive at a few hundred meters per second. At the same time, the US test showed that even a break of the projectile 30 meters from the tank can cause serious harm.

50% of the equipment was disrupted and the same amount of personnel was killed or injured. "Excalibur accuracy allows Ukrainians to go from targeting Russian tanks to the" departure of shells "directly to the tanks themselves. Or they can go from targeting the homes to targeting separate rooms in these homes," Owen summarizes. The M777 howitzer is able to shoot such a projectile up to 40 km, "Caesar" or "crab" - up to 50 km.