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The Precision Guided Mortar Munition is a new mortar round which the Army is developing. This new round will increase mortar accuracy enough to take out point or hard targets. This is very significant to me for two reasons.
Not all of you custom military ring customers are aware that is is difficult to get direct hits on targets with mortars. A mortar is an indirect fire weapon which kills be showering shrapnel on the target, not by hitting the target directly. In addition the mortar fires a high angle trajectory. Now my military ring customers who are fire direction specialists understand the ramifications of this but most other military ring customers probably don’t. What this means is that when a mortar fires a shell it fires it into the air at an angle greater than 45 degrees so the shell travels more distance up into the air than it travels across the ground. While it is in the air it is buffeted more by the wind and weather effects. This causes it to be moved around and thrown off course. Many of these factors can be identified and corrected before it is fired but there is still an effect.
The next good thing about the precision guided munition is that it gives the lower level commander an option to use a precision weapon. Normally precision weapons are only used by division level commanders and higher. The precision mortar will give the task force and company level commanders the opportunity to take advantage of precision bombs.
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