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Vulcano Precision Guided Munition is Ready for Fielding
Diehl Defence and Leonardo have developed and qualified the precision-guided munition family Vulcano 127mm and 155mm, under the umbrella of the Italian and German governments. Vulcano is a family of unguided (BER) and guided (GLR) ammunition for the 76mm, 127mm naval guns and 155mm land artillery systems.
The STANAG-conforming joint qualification controlled by the Italian and German authorities has been successfully completed. The qualification performed is compatible with all Joint Ballistic MoU gun systems, such as the land-based platforms PzH 2000 and FH-70 as well as 127mm/5inch naval platforms.
The Vulcano ammunition is designed to achieve extended ranges of 70 km for Vulcano 155 and 80 km for Vulcano 127 in conjunction with unique accuracy against stationary and moving targets.
Vulcano 127mm ammunition is conceived to give the 127/54 C and the 127/64 LW Naval Guns the capability to meet any present and future requirement for Precision Naval Fire Support and Long Range engagement of Surface Targets. Vulcano 127mm BER maintains the anti-air role as well. The rounds capitalise on new and emerging technology based upon a fin stabilised airframe with canard control for terminal guidance.
While the Vulcano 155mm projectile is a sub-calibre, fin stabilised airframe, compatible with the use of standard modular charges, with no need of additional propulsion; it is loaded with Insensitive Explosive and Patented tungsten rings; the mechanical interfaces are the same as in standard 155mm ammunition.
The multi-role, insensitive high-explosive (IHE) warhead with pre-fragmented tungsten splinters is most effective against soft targets, vehicles, semi-armoured vehicles, infrastructures and all typical infantry command posts.
The ammunition family reaches the highest target accuracy through the unique combination of satellite-based navigation with laser- or infrared-sensors for terminal homing. This makes the Vulcano family one of the most accurate artillery ammunitions for land and naval applications worldwide.
The Vulcano ammunition configuration for naval guns can be automatically loaded without any mechanical modification to the loading system. It is fully compatible with in-service five-inch and 155mm guns with additional functionality including programmable initialisation for fuse and guidance system, mission planner and technical fire control for trajectory computations, gun fire angles, selection of ammunition type and firing sequences.
Vulcano programming kits enable artillery platforms to fire the ammunition in an easy way. The kits allow either fully integrated or standalone operations. The embedded fire command computation programme, NABK-18+, has been officially released.
The latest adaptations of Vulcano are compatible with the majority of in-service artillery systems including 127/64 LW and 127/54C naval guns, the Advanced Gun System (AGS) currently on board the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt class of destroyers, and the more than 250 Mk 45 naval guns delivered to fleets worldwide. For land platforms, Vulcano can be fired from all variants of M777 and M109 howitzers and the majority of weapons for allied militaries around the world.
Integrating Vulcano into these weapons offers a number of possibilities such as the gun system’s maximum rate of fire does not change with the integration of Vulcano. It provides all-weather precision attack capability (<5 m CEP) to fully defeat targets with a high lethality pre-fragmented warhead. Vulcano effectively addresses land and surface attack on land and at sea. It can be equipped with optional Semi-Active Laser seeker and perform in-flight retargeting to address moving targets.
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