Cannon-launched guided projectile
Cannon-launched guided projectiles (CLGP) are precision-guided munitions launched by howitzers, mortars, tank guns, and naval guns. Those projectile main propulsion system is the initial kinetic shoot, directed as much as possible toward the target. A secondary GPS or geocoordinates-based system then corrects the trajectory to increase target accuracy and fall closer to the target. This system relies on electronic guidance and pre-programmed coordinates, submitted to the round before its launch. CLGP are intended to supplement and not supplant conventional rounds, providing additional accuracy when needed. For example, the INVAR missile system on the T-90 MBT.
Systems capable of firing CLGPs
- 120×570mm NATO
- 120 mm mortar
- 125 mm smoothbore ammunition
- 152 mm
List of CLGPs
Tank
- 105x617mm NATO
- LAHAT
- FALARICK
- 120×570mm NATO
- 125 mm smoothbore ammunition
- 152 mm
Naval
- 5-inch, US naval (mainly Mark 45)
- 155 mm Advanced Gun System
- LRLAP (abandoned)
- 8"/55 caliber Mark 71 gun)
- SAM-N-8 Zeus (abandoned)
Howitzer
- 122 mm
- Kitolov-2M (also in a 120 mm mortar version)[1]
- 152 mm
- Krasnopol (Weapon) semi-automatic laser-guided (also in 155 mm for export)
- 155 mm
- M1156 Precision Guidance Kit
- M712 Copperhead
- M982 Excalibur
- Basir
- Bofors 155 Bonus
- SMArt 155
- Rheinmetall Denel Munitions 155 mm V-LAP[2]
- GP1 (Chinese Krasnopol clone)[3][4][5]
- GP6 (Improved GP1)[6]
Mortar
- 81 mm mortar
- Merlin Mortar round - millimetric radar guided
- 120 mm mortar
- XM395 Precision Guided Mortar Munition
- Strix mortar round
- KM-8 Gran is a Russian guided 120mm artillery shell with Malakhit fire control system.[7][8]
- GP120 (GP4) is a Chinese terminal corrected 120 mm mortar shell.[9]
- GP140 (GP9) is a Chinese semi-active laser (SAL) guidance 120 mm mortar shell.
See also
References
- http://roe.ru/pdfs/pdf_1914.pdf
- "Rheinmetall Denel Munition qualifies VLAP shell for overseas client". 13 March 2017.
- "功能维护升级中".
- http://www.janes360.com/images/assets/423/54423/precision-guided_munitions_for_field_artillery.pdf
- "Somebody's Popping off Laser-Guided Shells in Libya". 13 November 2017.
- "Chinese GP6 guided artillery projectiles in Libya - Armament Research Services (ARES)". 18 September 2019.
- "KBP Instrument Design Bureau - Gran". Archived from the original on 2018-11-12. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
- "Final Report". characterisationexplosiveweapons.org.
- "Enhanced capability for WMA029 mortar system - China Military". Archived from the original on 2017-04-01. Retrieved 2017-11-22.
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