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VULCANO
Guided Ammunition Family
A joint program with
Pinpoint Accuracy through Terminal Guidance
The VULCANO-Guided Ammunition offers the most accurate
artillery ammunition worldwide. The Italian company OTO Melara
and the German Company Diehl Defence joined forces in the
VULCANO guided ammunition program based on a bilateral
government agreement.
This new guided ammunition family, comprising the 127 mm type
for navies as well as the 155 mm variant for army artillery, is
bound to revolutionize the artillery´s and navy´s indirect fire.
The combination of GPS navigation with laser or infrared sensors
enbables these ammunition types to engage even small stationary
and moving targets with direct hits at ranges of up to 100 km – a
precision demonstrated in several test campaigns und exceeding
the performance of merely GPS-guided ammunition.
VULCANO V155 GLR-SAL Guided Artillery Ammunition
The VULCANO 155 mm Guided Long Range (GLR) Artillery
Ammunition relies on GPS Mid-Course guidance and target lock on
by the Semi-Active Laser (SAL) sensor in the terminal homing
phase for pin-point engagement of stationary or moving ground
targets. SAL terminal homing eleminates also the target location
error. Laser designation will be done by the human-in-the-loop
Joint Fire Support Team (JFST) and offers the possibility of
mission abort. Combining the laser sensor with a high-performance preformed-fragmented warhead (PFF) featuring insensitive
munition characteristics (IM) adds to the capability of accurate
target engagement.
SAL-Sensor
Weapon Platforms
The VULCANO 155 mm Guided Artillery Ammunition can be fired
from the Panzerhaubitze 2000 (PzH2000) Self-Propelled Howitzer,
the FH 70 and M 777 A2 Field Howitzers as well as from the
CAESAR and M109 Self-Propelled Howitzers.
The NABK (NATO Armament Ballistic Kernel)-conform fire command
solution is integrated in the PzH2000, FH70 and M777 A2.
MFPF-Sensor
GPS only
VULCANO V127 GLR-SAL/FarIR
Guided Naval Ammunition
For naval applications, the semi-autonomous SAL Sensor,
allowing mission abort, can be replaced (plug & play) by the Far
Infrared Sensor (FarIR) for autonomous target engagement at
sea. In addition, the mission can be performed with GPS
terminal homing employing the Multifunctional Programmable
Sensor to guide the ammunition to the pre-determined
coordinate.
FarIR Sensor
The mission spectrum of the
VULCANO 127 mm Guided Naval
Ammunition comprises Naval Fire
Support (NFS), Anti-Surface
Warfare (ASuW) and Sea Targets.
In particular, the ammunition is
capable of engaging stationary or
moving single point targets as
well as artillery point targets.
Weapon Platforms
The VULCANO Guided Ammunition Family 127 mm und 155 mm utilizes
similar configurations with identical components.
The VULCANO 127 mm ammunition can be employed in the 127
mm/64 Light Weight (LW) and
127/54 Compact Oto Melara naval
guns, which are used in the ship classes F125 Frigate, Multi-Purpose FREMM Frigate, MEKO 360 Frigate among other frigates as
Moreover, the ammunition can be employed in the MK45 Mod2
well as in numerous destroyers in navies worldwide.
and MK Mod4 naval guns.
Flight Sequences
The flight sequences of the 155 mm ammunition type
The flight sequences of the 127 mm ammunition type
encompass the Ballistic Flight Path involving Initialization and
comprise the Ballistic Flight Path involving initialization and
GPS Acquisition, the Glide Path with Mid-Course GPS Navigati-
GPS acquisition, the Glide Path with Mid-Course GPS
on and Terminal Homing with SAL mode or GPS as backup.
navigation and Terminal Homing including SAL Mode, Far
Infrared (FarIR) mode or GPS as backup.
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Range V155GLR: 155mm/52 cal
80 km
155mm/39 cal
57 km
Range V127GLR:
127mm/64 cal
100 km
127mm/62 cal
95 km
127mm/54 cal
80 km
1 Ballistic Flight Path – Initialization, GPS Acquisition
2 Glide Path – Mid-Course GPS Navigation
3 Terminal Homing – V155 – SAL Mode or GPS as Backup
– V127 – SAL Mode, FarIR Mode or GPS as Backup
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90552 Röthenbach a d Pegnitz
DBD-ILS4/02/2015
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