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Posted on 10/19/2025 3:47:05 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
The United States military might soon add an insane new weapon to its arsenal.
As I often say, the United States has the most powerful military on the planet, and there's no close second.
We don't just have the best people. We have the greatest technology and weapons that humans have ever designed.
Whether it's the B-21 Raider, the F-22 Raptor, nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers or anything else, the United States can bring tools to the fight years more advanced than our adversaries.
That might now include a new kind of munition.
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Miles ahead of the enemy on technology, until some leftie traitor on the team feels the need to even up the score and shares the secrets with China or Russia.
GREAT
Awesome...
Try “Hellfire R9X”
The Flying Ginsu. Extremely low collateral damage.
Maneuverable artillery rounds? Yes! Do not sell any to Zelensky please. He will be back next week begging for some.
Completely destroyed an Abrahams Tank accidently fired upon in the Gulf war. One powerful weapon for sure.
What’s the cost per round? A great weapon, but it’s likely to be produced in too small a quantity and too expensive to be effectively used.
More information on what the “terrifying bomb” actually is so the headline isn’t just clickbait.
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General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems announced this week the successful test of the Long Range Maneuvering Projectile, and the details are insane.
The company released, in part, the following information:
“General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced the successful test of its Long Range Maneuvering Projectile (LRMP) at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, achieving key flight milestones when fired from a M777 howitzer platform. During the August test, GA-EMS fired multiple LRMP rounds using M231 powder charges, demonstrating sabot separation, de-spin stabilization, wing deployment and controlled descent.
The LRMP is a next-generation munition engineered to extend the range and precision of existing 155mm artillery systems. Equipped with deployable aerodynamic control surfaces and onboard guidance, it can actively maneuver in flight to engage targets at extended distances—even in GPS-denied or degraded environments. Recent test flights matched predictive models and yielded valuable data to support upcoming demonstrations at significantly increased ranges.”
“As I often say, the United States has the most powerful military on the planet, and there’s no close second.”
Our Achilles heel is internal rot. A patient enemy will exploit that. We need to fix it.
If it isn’t a deterrent now, a military’s job is to utterly destroy and demoralize the enemy - then it becomes a deterrent again.
For those who don’t want to read the article: it is a guided glider artillery round with a 120 km (75 mile) range. It didn’t talk about guidance other than it can work in a GPS denied environment, whether it has terminal targeting or is just programmed with a target location at launch and how much explosive payload it has.
Another issue is how long these will last in storage: Copperhead guided 155mm HE was fun stuff to shoot but didn't weather well in the long term. When we were required to fire them, fairly often they went where they felt like and ignored the laser designator - we even had one land in the road and EOD had to deal with it!
I am also curious about Time of Flight - how long will it take this round to get to the target? Enemies tend to be a bit uncooperative about sitting still.
“””””What’s the cost per round? A great weapon, but it’s likely to be produced in too small a quantity and too expensive to be effectively used.””””””
It is an artillery round added to the pile sitting by the guns, it isn’t to replace the other 155 shells, similar to having a pocketful of different shotgun shells, you put in the particular shell type you want for that shot.
That seems to be their plan. I just read where Palestinian millionaires where funding the so called “No Kings” protests. What a bunch of losers. They are trying to destroy us from within, but it’s not going to work as long as conservatives like Pres. Trump are in control. Unfortunately, I think N.Y. City is toast and many other libtard cities, but they will fail, then maybe their people will come to their senses.
Long Range Maneuvering Projectile, LRMP, not to be confused with the old Excalibur projectile, which proved worthless in Ukraine's electronic warfare environment.
Standard "dumb" shells, Excalibur and LRMP are all fired from M777, M109 & other 155 mm howitzers, with differences being:
Or our fellow countrymen. Lincoln's Lyceum Address
At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Not to worry.
These LRMPs are still years away from mass production and deployment.
In the meantime, Pres. Trump will have long since convinced Mad-Vlad the Invader that he needs to stop his stupid war in Ukraine, and so Trump will not need to threaten Putin with any more of America's new "wonder weapons".
The enemy may think themselves out of range. I’m not sure how maneuverable these projectiles are, but it seems likely you could engage moving targets.
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