The Army Has a Plan to Turn Big Artillery Guns into 'Sniper Rifles'
Task and Purpose [2]Jared Keller [3]
For months, Army officials have bragged that the branch’s new Joint Effects Targeting System [4] will boost the precision and lethality of forward observers by effectively “turn[ing] a howitzer or a Paladin into a giant sniper rifle.†By the end of the year, every artillery platoon will find out if they were bluffing: After months of intensive [5] testing [6], the Army plans on fielding the portable new JETS to U.S. combat troops downrange starting in September 2018, PEO Soldier officials told Task & Purpose on Jan. 19.
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