Raytheon has been working on the Excalibur GPS-guided artillery for 8 years now, and it is finally ready for deployment. Initial testing showed deadly accuracy as these artilleries managed to lock onto and hit their targets with an error margin of just 10 meters when fired from 24km away and aimed 15 degrees off target. While this development is interesting, it still remains to be seen how GPS signals will be steady enough during a cloudy day for use with the Excalibur. Just in case Osama bin Laden is reading this and own’s one of those high end GPS-equipped devices, he’d best head off somewhere with depressing weather all year round.
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