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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The direct link is in the article --
General Atomics Advances Artillery Modernization with LRMP Testing SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Oct. 13, 2025The Outkick article embeds a talking head video of 38 minutes. Anybody watch the whole thing?
But as to the hyperbole of the article, alongside the wiggle words, none of which is found in the General Atomics press release, one read of the 30-ish writer:
"David Hookstead is a reporter for OutKick covering a variety of topics with a focus on football and culture. He also hosts of the podcast American Joyride that is accessible on Outkick where he interviews American heroes and outlines their unique stories. Before joining OutKick, Hookstead worked for the Daily Caller for seven years covering similar topics. Hookstead is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin [ Madison ]."That's why the tone of the article is so hyped up. He's a college "journalist" with his own YouTube and such. IMDB terms him "a media personality."
Happy to read the General Atomics press release. Happy to learn to avoid Outkick. Might. Could.
They should face a firing squad.
Place where I worked up until June 2023 (developers of was looking at putting a SAR (mapping) radar on an 155mm shell. A scout shell would map the target area, identify targets such as tanks and AAA assets, and the follow up volley of precision weapons would take them out. The follow up volley can be fired while the scout is still mapping.
I saw a tweet yesterday from some jerk praising the Rosenbergs for giving nuclear secrets to the Soviets. He said that “Jim Crow America shouldn’t have a monopoly on nukes”.
There is a sickness in our country that we need to eliminate.
Today, they succeed because they are subsidized by federal and state dollars. Consequently, federal and state taxpayers help reduce taxes on those living in the city.
If the federal and red state governments end ALL subsidies to corrupt blue cities, you will eventually see an exodus of city taxpayers; the leaches will remain. Only then will these corrupt blue cities fail.
Sadly, republicans (federal and state) have not been willing to end subsidizing these corrupt blue cities.
Lincoln’s words seem prophetic, but I think he may have been alluding to Democrats. Authors and finishers, then and now.
My friends don’t you think that drones will be a bigger threat to us and anti-drone technology more important to develop?
Article sounds like clickbait.
The “technology” that has been effective against the US military is small bands of partisans armed with rifles.
The subsidizing will end. It has to or we will go broke. When there are no more wealthy and no more middle income taxpayers in those cities, and no more pork for the socialists, they will scatter. Imho.
Its range is 75 miles. The big question is: how much does it cost?
It does not depend on GPS, so how is it guided, and how accurate is it?
If it is accurate to 10 meters, it is almost as good as GPS.
Such details are probably classified.
It’s Great until your enemy has them too
The Zumwalt destroyers were going to be a key part of our navy as we moved into the 21st century. We were going to build 32 of them. Their main role was land attack and their main weapon was an Advanced Gun System. The AGS had munitions with some of the capabilities being discussed in this article. But the cost of the munitions was too high, the AGS was too expensive to fire and the destroyers were basically useless. Very expensive ships with no role. We built 3.
I do not know how much of a threat drones will be in future wars. I don’t think anyone really knows. I suppose it is something that the metanymomic Pentagon should worry about.
I’m an EE and the most profound mystery about this weapon is that the electronics in the projectile that can maneuver it once launched can survive the G’s imposed upon it when the round is fired.
Anyone with physics background calculate the G’s upon the 155mm round when fired?
Outa my wheelhouse.....
That sounds like a M712 Copperhead. 1970’s Technology.
Scatter? You mean like invade decent hard working folk's home turf?
Better to build a mile high wall around the blue enclaves.
...and fill them with water!
One Hell of a technological tour de force. The electronics package paid attention to every g-force experience by the round being fired, the kick of the powder charge, the centrifugal forces imposed by the rifling, the burretting(?) forces traversing the barrel, the set back forces transition to free flight.
AND the package had a center hole down the full length to allow safe passage of the shaped charge's metal jet!
They’re a threat now. Russia’s been at it going on 4 years now.
To be clear: They are a threat, the magnitude of the threat and the correct military response is unknown. I work at MIT/lincoln Lab these days. One group I worked with (I was not involved) did a test where they had 25 drones and 12 low power networked distributed radars. They collected the data and did the data processing offline. The offline results showed they could track all 25 with sufficient power to counter ( shoot down) all the drones. When I was at BAE the group I worked with (again I was not involved) had a ballistic system (a gun) that could shoot down drones with one shot every time, though the test was basically just skeet shooting, the drones flew in a narrow corridor but the gun had to be fast and accurate. The same group demonstrated a Bradley fighting vehicle that could shoot down RPG’s a few years before, but that’s all it could do, defend itself against RPGs. The Army did not find it worthwhile.
During World War II the SCR-584 could shoot down V-1 flying bombs that came within range. The V-1 was an early model drone. The Germans and Americans both used radio guided air launched missiles during the war with limited success.
BTW, the skeet shooter had a laser version but they were not allowed to demonstrate it because of flight safety, the hazard was to the sight of aircraft flying withing 25 miles.
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