{"id":104817,"date":"2020-09-08T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104817"},"modified":"2020-09-08T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T14:01:44","slug":"tank-firing-hypervelocity-round-shoots-down-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104817","title":{"rendered":"Tank firing hypervelocity round shoots down cruise missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 513px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3a\/Kings_of_battle_keep_the_fire%3B_1-9_FA_fires_its_last_rounds_140910-A-CW513-046.jpg\/1200px-Kings_of_battle_keep_the_fire%3B_1-9_FA_fires_its_last_rounds_140910-A-CW513-046.jpg\" width=\"513\" height=\"308\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">M-109 like was used in last week&#8217;s test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ok, I know it&#8217;s not a &#8220;tank&#8221; so much as a tracked howitzer. The self-propelled gun fired a 155mm hypervelocity (Mach 5+) round at a cruise missile and took it down. This is the first such demonstration of the capability.<\/p>\n<p>This was part of a larger test of an Air Force program to demonstrate battlefield networking of sensors, combined with artificial intelligence, to give battlefield commanders better situational awareness. This also gives our weapons systems greater awareness and allows them to track and lock onto targets faster and more accurately, making them overall more lethal.<\/p>\n<p>Lots more at the source link below.<\/p>\n<p>Source;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2020\/09\/abms-demo-proves-ai-chops-for-c2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breaking Defense<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I know it&#8217;s not a &#8220;tank&#8221; so much as a tracked howitzer. The self-propelled gun &hellip; <a title=\"Tank firing hypervelocity round shoots down cruise missile\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104817\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tank firing hypervelocity round shoots down cruise missile<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,359,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-army","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104818,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104817\/revisions\/104818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}