Advanced Ammunition: Defeating Impossible Enemy Threats
For more than 30 years, Northrop Grumman has protected U.S. warfighters through the development and delivery of weapons and ammunition that reliably outmatched the range, precision and firepower of any fielded enemy weapon systems.
That commitment to combat superiority played out successfully in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm when U.S. and coalition forces overwhelmingly defeated the Iraqi Army — the world's fifth largest army at the time — in just 100 hours. Unfortunately, U.S. adversaries have not stood still since then, developing new, longer-range, higher-lethality weapons such as armor-penetrating anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) that pose significant potential danger to our warfighters.
Putting Warfighters First
Today, Northrop Grumman is continuing its partnership with the U.S. Army to regain the "combat capabilities high ground" by developing several new advanced ammunition types for the company's Bushmaster® Chain Gun®, an autocannon integrated extensively on U.S. and allied combat vehicles, ships and attack aircraft.
"We're continuing to build on the company's expertise in programmable airburst munitions and proximity fuzes to give warfighters every advantage they can get," said Rylan Harris, director of advanced ammunition for the company's Armament Systems business unit. "We're also developing an even smarter weapon system called guided medium caliber ammunition. Guided medium caliber ammunition will allow warfighters to reach out and defeat enemy combatants decisively at ranges that are not possible today, and do so before the enemy can launch their own attack."
