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The US Army ERCA (Extended Range Cannon Artillery) has overcome reliability problems with the new cannon artillery itself and recently successfully fired the new BAE SCALRP (Sub-Caliber Artillery Long-Range Projectile) guided 155mm shell at a target 11

The US Army ERCA (Extended Range Cannon Artillery) has overcome reliability problems with the new cannon artillery itself and recently successfully fired the new BAE SCALRP (Sub-Caliber Artillery Long-Range Projectile) guided 155mm shell at a target 11

The US Army ERCA (Extended Range Cannon Artillery) is stalled because of reliability problems with the new cannon itself Eighteen months ago, the ERCA prototype achieved a decade old goal of using a longer barrel cannon firing an extended range Excali

 January 24, 2021: At the end of 2020 the U.S. Army ERCA (Extended Range Cannon Artillery) finally achieved a decade old goal of using a longer barrel cannon firing an extended range Excalibur GPS guided shell to accurately hit a target 70 kilometers distant. Over a decade ago it was realized that this required three new technologies. The primary need was a version of a reliable GPS guided artillery shell, like Excalibur, that could handle the more difficult t...