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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
The “technology” that has been effective against the US military is small bands of partisans armed with rifles.
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.
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.....
I think that smart mortar rounds are likely to be the most useful.
For longer range, there’s missiles and drones.
It comes down to needed range, needed accuracy and the lowest cost answer.
This civilization is established as historic fact in India.
One of the most astonishing, of many, described in the Mahabharata and its astonishing component text the Bhagavad Gita, is a weapon too destructive ever to be invoked, viz. the Brahmashirastra.
BTW, the Bhagavad Gita is easily one of the most astonishing, valuable, and profound texts I have ever read. Its survival into the 21st century is a priceless miracle.
I have read it five times and struggled to read it in Sanskrit.
The phrase "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" is famously quoted by J. Robert Oppenheimer, upon witnessing the first nuclear explosion during the Trinity test. This quotation is from the Bhagavad Gita.
The Brahmashirastra (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मशिरास्त्र) is the most destructive weapon described in the ancient Indian texts. The Brahmashirastra causes chain reactions of massive explosions and waves to annihilate even the universe itself. Four people named in the ancient text possessed the knowledge of this weapon. This weapon can be invoked in any object, even to a blade of grass.
The Mahabharata names four people capable of understanding the Brahmashirastra. One was Arjuna, the hero of the Bhagavad Gita. He represents you and me and every one of us. Understanding this and the text can lead to astonishing insights.
We might add Albert Einstein as a fourth.
The US already has had self-steering artillery rounds for more than 40 years. Now there’s Copperhead, Excalibur, ... even self-steering mortar rounds (M395). Plus a self-steering warhead (M1156 PGK) that converts any 155mm arty round into a “smart” weapon.
In 2014, DAPRA revealed they’d created a self-steering .50-cal bullet. Short of infantry small arms, we can make about anything self-steering we have a mind to.
But the guy who wrote this article isn’t the sharpest crayola in the box or he wouldn’t have referred to an arty round as “a bomb.”