Orbital ATK Artillery Precision Guidance Kit Surpasses 10,000 Units Delivered
February 27 2017 - 8:30AM
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Innovative Technology Transforms
Conventional Artillery Projectiles with Precision
Capability
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies, announced today that the company’s precision guidance
kit (PGK) is well into full-rate production and has now delivered
more than 10,000 units. PGK combines guidance and fuze function for
conventional artillery projectiles into one device, allowing
battlefield commanders to employ artillery with greater accuracy
and less collateral damage risk when engaging high-value
targets.
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Orbital ATK has delivered more than
10,000 PGK units. PGK combines guidance and fuze function for
conventional artillery projectiles into one device, allowing
battlefield commanders to employ artillery with greater. (Photo
credit: U.S. Army)
By replacing a standard fuze with Orbital ATK's guidance fuze,
artillery projectiles are reliably delivered to within 30 meters of
the intended target. During recent lot acceptance tests, randomly
selected PGK fuzes provided accuracy better than 10 meters Circular
Error Probable and performed all fuze functions with a perfect
safety record. This degree of accuracy greatly reduces conventional
artillery dispersion, which can be 200 meters or more.
“More than 1,000 PGKs have been tested over the course of
development and production,” said Dan Olson, Vice President and
General Manager for Orbital ATK’s Armament Systems Division of the
Defense Systems Group. “These tests prove PGK’s maturity in terms
of producibility, reliability, performance and safety. Based on our
experience, we see that PGK technology has the potential for
greater integration across current and future indirect- and
direct-fire systems.”
PGK enhances accuracy through Orbital ATK’s innovative design
which features a fixed-canard guidance approach, gun-hardened
electronics and a self-generated power supply. PGK also
incorporates a “fail-safe” option, preventing the projectile from
detonating if it does not get close enough to the target.
“PGK is a great success story and tremendous capability for our
artillery,” said Army Product Manager, Lt. Col. Anthony Gibbs. “Not
only have we reached a milestone in production, our soldiers have
now fired it more than 1,000 times during recent operations – and
it’s really giving them an unfair advantage.”
Under the initial production contract that fielded more than
4,000 units, Orbital ATK successfully completed a series of nine
separate lot acceptance tests that demonstrated PGK's reliability
to guide the round while in flight and perform all fuze functions
correctly under extreme environmental conditions. In July 2016,
Orbital ATK signed a $69 million contract that exercises a second
option to produce PGK for the U.S. military through 2019.
Orbital ATK’s Defense Systems Group is an industry leader in
providing innovative and affordable precision and strike weapons,
advanced propulsion and hypersonics, missile components across
air-, sea- and land-based systems, ammunition and related energetic
products.
About Orbital ATK
Orbital ATK is a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies. The company designs, builds and delivers space,
defense and aviation systems for customers around the world, both
as a prime contractor and merchant supplier. Its main products
include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile
products, subsystems and defense electronics; precision weapons,
armament systems and ammunition; satellites and associated space
components and services; and advanced aerospace structures.
Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, Orbital ATK employs
approximately 12,500 people in 18 states across the U.S. and in
several international locations. For more information, visit
www.orbitalatk.com.
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