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U.S. Navy's Newest Warship Has No Ammunition for Its Big Guns
 The U.S. Navy is slated to cancel the projectiles for the two big guns that outfit its newest and most advanced warship due to excessive costs that total an estimated $800,000 Gulp! per round. The Long Range Land-Attack Projectile, or LRLAP, is the only guided precision ammunition designed to be fired by the USS Zumwalt, a land-attack destroyer that was created to hold two 155 millimeter/62-caliber Advanced Gun Systems that could, according to defense contractor Lockheed Martin, "defeat targets in the urban canyons of coastal cities with minimal collateral damage," Defense News reported. The announcement comes just two weeks after the U.S. Navy commissioned the warship. Is this the equivalent of Title Passing? Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-11-08 |
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