Joint Leonardo-BAE munition could triple US Navy gun range
By: Tom Kington, July 3, 2017
ROME — A guided munition that BAE Systems and Italy’s Leonardo are offering the U.S. Navy will triple the range of the Mk 45 guns installed on about 100 Navy vessels, keeping ships out of harm’s way in littoral operations, a BAE official has said.
The two firms announced on June 28 they were partnering on adapting Leonardo’s Vulcano munition for use with BAE’s five-inch Mk 45 gun, as well as the 155-millimeter Advanced Gun System gun supplied by the firm for the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt class of destroyers.
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