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Raytheon Qualifying Excalibur Variant, Looks To Future

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

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Raytheon Qualifying Excalibur Variant, Looks To Future

While the Army and Marines are both using the Excalibur 155mm precision guided extended range artillery shell in Afghanistan and, Raytheon [RTN] is working on qualifying the 1b variant in the United States. “We’re in the middle of qualification of the 1b,” said David Brockway, business development manager for Excalibur at Raytheon. “We’re increasing reliability and reducing costs.” Qualifying the round for safety and performance is mostly done at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. The first testing series involves…

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