AArtillery
Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon
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Photo Credit: U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. David Kim · Public domain · Resized · Public domain · Source ↗ · Modified
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AArtillery
At a glance
Long-Range Hypersonic Weaponlarger figure on 0 of 1
M-46 field gunlarger figure on 1 of 1
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Measured figures
Configuration
| Specification | Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon | M-46 field gun |
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| Speed | Mach ≥5[source] | — |
| Place of origin | United States[source] | Soviet Union[source] |
| In service | 2023–present[source] | — |
| Used by | United States Army United States Navy (planned)[source] | — |
| Manufacturer | Lockheed Martin[source] |
Width
Single source2.45 m (8 ft)[source]
reportedly
Single source34.5 in (0.88 m) (reportedly)[source]
Bore L/55
Single sourceBore: 7.15 m (23 ft 5 in) L/55[source]
burst
Single sourcenormal
Single sourcesustained
Single source6 rpm (normal) 8 rpm (burst) 5 rpm (sustained)[source]
Muzzle velocity
Single source930 m/s (3,051 ft/s)[source]
Bars compare reported quantities only. A larger figure does not make a system better; configurations and test conditions differ.
MOTZ[source]
| Unit cost | $41 million[source] | — |
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| Launch platform | ground-launched[source]Unspecified by source | — |
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| Type | — | Towed field gun[source] |
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| Wars | — | Vietnam War Cambodian Civil War Eritrean War of Independence South African Border War Six-Day War Yom Kippur War Ethiopian Civil War Angolan Civil War Uganda–Tanzania War Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1979–1991) Lebanese Civil War Iran–Iraq War Sri Lankan Civil War First Nagorno-Karabakh War Yugoslav Wars Kosovo War Syrian Civil War Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) Second Nagorno-Karabakh War Tigray War Israeli–Lebanese conflict Russo-Ukrainian War[source] |
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| Designed | — | 1946–1950[source] |
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| Produced | — | 1951–1971[source] |
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| Shell | — | 130 x 845 mm R (R/184.6mm) separate-loading charge and projectile[source] |
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| Breech | — | Horizontal sliding-wedge[source] |
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| Recoil | — | hydro-pneumatic[source] |
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| Carriage | — | Split-trail[source] |
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| Elevation | — | −2.5° to 45°[source] |
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| Traverse | — | 50°[source] |
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| Reported operators | — |
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