April 6, 2021
How the U.S. Army Plans to Remain the World’s Top Ground Force
The US Army sees a clear need to substantially advance offensive ground-attack technology.
by Kris Osborn
Here's What You Need to Remember: While precision fires of this kind would, quite naturally, be useful in full-scale mechanized force-on-force combat – they proved particularly useful in counterinsurgency attacks as Taliban and Iraqi insurgents deliberately blended in with innocent civilians among local populations. As a result, precision attacks became necessary, even vital, to US combat success.
The Army is working to engineer a sleek, high-speed, first-of-its-kind long-range ground launched attack missile able to pinpoint and destroy enemy bunkers, helicopter staging areas, troop concentrations and other fixed-location targets from as much as three times the range of existing weapons, service officials said.
The emerging Long Range Precision Fires, slated to be operational by 2027, is being designed to destroy targets at distances up to 500 kilometers.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/how-us-army-plans-remain-world%E2%80%99s-top-ground-force-182013