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GPS guided munitions like Excalibur are useless against peer adversary. Costs as much as 100 regular rounds and as 200+ FPV drones but has zero accuracy thanks
by ponector 1y ago
GPS guided munitions like Excalibur are useless against peer adversary. Costs as much as 100 regular rounds and as 200+ FPV drones but has zero accuracy thanks to EW and jamming.
- esseph 1y ago... Not quite. Local airborne EW platforms can relay GPS signal. Combined with Inertial Navigation System reduces the CEP. Laser terminal guidance gets it on point. The US has a lot of work to do in EW - it also has done a lot of work to prepare for some of these scenarios.
- ponector 1y agoAnd yet, more than a year ago: The US gave up sending Ukraine Excalibur guided artillery shells costing $100,000 because they rarely hit their target, report says.
- esseph 1y agoI mean, the US isn't flying our EW aircraft over Ukraine. So yeah that is in line with what I have said. US doctrine is based in air dominance. Also, most Excalibur rounds do not have laser guidance kits. Those are much newer and more expensive. We may have given Ukraine a handful, if that. Still requires laser designation by airborne or land forces, but can give you excellent accuracy even in completely denied GPS environments and against mobile targets.