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Army

Fort Bliss Soldiers First To Fire Army’s New PGK

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, December 13th, 2012

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Soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment from Fort Bliss, Texas, last month became the first troops to fire the Army's upcoming near-precision projectile, the ATK [ATK]-produced XM1156 Precision Guidance Kit (PGK), during tests at Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz. PGK is a global positioning system guidance kit with fuzing functions that turns the Army's conventional stockpile of 155mm high explosive M549A1 and M795 cannon artillery projectiles into near precision munitions, said Joseph Galyean, Test & Evaluation Integrated Product…

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