Excalibur Basics Cooperative development Family of Munitions
Operational Concept
Excalibur Safety Features Excalibur will be the most insensitive Artillery projectile in the inventoryBase Cover lands in Danger Area Echo (~250 meters from gun)Two arming environments (setback & spin); fuze safe for overhead fire Fuze will not arm until round is within 3 sec TOF to aim pointFDC will compute Ballistic Impact Point (BIP)- AFATDS computes default BIP on gun-target line
- FDC examines default BIP and either accepts or selects a different (safe) area
- FDC selected area for new BIP (e.g., a FFA) need not be on gun-target line
- If necessary, FDC enters new BIP location into AFATDS & re-computes mission
- If round fails in-flight self-test then canards will not deploy & fuze will not arm
- Faulty round would impact in BIP and warhead would not detonate
Technical Progress Summary 1
Technical Progress Summary 2
Urgent Fielding Effort On 24 March the Army Resources & Requirements Board on validated the CFLCC Urgent Need Statement for a precision cannon munition On 14 April Excalibur Conducted MS C Review- Brief conducted five months early
- Acquisition Decision Memorandum signed 23 May
On 27 May OSD approved the TEMP to support Urgent FieldingOn 22 June Army signed a Low Rate Initial Production contract with RaytheonProgram on track to field projectiles to CFLCC in Iraq by the end of March 2006
Major Upcoming Test Events Guided Gunfire B- Demonstrate initialization, projectile flight performance and Fuse Mode functionality
- Various ranges and charges
- Exposure to environmental conditioning
- Extreme environmental conditioning
- Loose cargo and drop testing
- Sand & Dust exposure
- Fired at charges up to PIMP+5%
First Article Test for XM982 (Block Ia-1)
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