Raytheons innovative satellite-guided 155mm artillery shell was used in operations in Iraq last weekend to kill a top local al Qaeda leader south of Baghdad. Bloomberg News Tony Capaccio reports a ...

A precision-guided artillery munition made by Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems has been named among the U.S. Army's "10 Greatest Inventions of the Year" for 2007. The XM982 Excalibur artillery ...

InsideDefense.com reports today on the “first combat firing of a 155 mm precision artillery shell in Iraq.” The shell, the XM982 Excalibur, was fired at an al Qaeda safe house earlier this month: ...

The first-generation Excalibur XM982 guided artillery round was praised by the Army and many analysts for its accuracy. With a combination of GPS satellite and inertial guidance - hardened to ...

You know how there is that option to turn off your phone’s GPS tracking? Now you know why. Hit the jump for my sad list of rejected one-liners. No military entity should be allowed to name their own ...

M/A-COM (Lowell, MA) reports that it has signed an initial development contract with Raytheon Missiles Systems to develop tactical telemetry modules (TTMs) for the XM982 “Excalibur” projectile program ...

Troops with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division have become the first American unit to fire in combat a new artillery round with extended range accuracy, military officials said Friday.