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Boeing-Nammo successfully tested ramjet-powered ammunition.



Image 1:) U.S M777 155mm. howizer. 


The ramjet-driven missiles are already in use. But the small-caliber 155 mm. ramjet-driven ammunition is a tool that can be very exciting and revolutionizing. The ramjet-driven ammunition could also create for 120 mm. caliber. 

The ramjet-driven ammunition can give Leopard-2 tank extremely high force. And that allows that Leopard can destroy enemy tanks longer range than ever before. There is the possibility that nanotechnology can make it possible to create the ramjet-driven bullet for the 50-caliber Barrett sniper rifle. The ramjet-driven smart bullets can be the ultimate tools for the infantrymen. 

The term smart bullet means a small-size missile that will shoot at a target by using a regular rifle. Those missiles can aim at their target by using the laser system that points the target to the bullet. But technology is advancing. And the next-generation systems can use a similar fire- and forget system that makes Javelin so deadly. And nanotechnology can make it possible that this intelligent bullet can be equipped with a miniaturized ramjet. 




Image 2) Barrett M-82


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Nanotechnology makes it possible that even 50 caliber bullet can have an intelligent homing system and ramjet booster. 

DARPA developed smart fire- and forget sniper bullets in their EXACTO program. And that kind of system might be more deadly than ever before.

The idea is that this type of bullet uses a similar homing system to Javelin. The system takes an image of the target. And then that image will download to the cartridge that will fly to the target. 

The small-caliber ramjet systems can use the RDE (Rotating Detonation Engine) or its miniature version. 

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Image 3:) "XM1113 extended range artillery round, shown here at a range demonstration, uses a rocket-assist motor". (Wikipedia/M777 howitzer)


Regular extended-range ammunition use rocket boosters. But the solid-fuel air-breathing ramjets are giving extended range to those systems. 

Air-breathing-solid fuel super- or hypersonic ammunition is the next-generation tool for artillery. The range of the cannons is increasing and those smart ammunition can use GPS or some other methodology for attacking long-distance targets with pinpoint accuracy. 

The next advance for that ramjet-powered ammunition could be hypersonic scramjet-powered ammunition that can use to destroy battlefield missiles and other targets with pinpoint accuracy. But the ramjet-driven ammunition is a great advance. 

The idea of ramjet-powered ammunition is not new. In 1915 Hungarian inventor Albert Fonó introduced an idea about the ramjet-driven ammunition that can extend the artillery's range. But at that time the Ramjet-driven ammunition was hard to make because no fuel. 

That can make this ammunition operate. So Albert Fonó thought that he could use regular gunpowder. Also for fuel of that kind of ramjet-powered ammunition. 

But the next-generation solid fuels along with the things like rifled combustion chambers are making it possible. The system uses the RDE engine for getting speed. That the air-breathing ramjet- or scramjet-driven ammunition is possible the next advance in the ammunition of those kinds of systems. 


https://breakingdefense.com/2022/08/boeing-nammo-successfully-test-ramjet-air-breathing-longer-distance-artillery/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_M82


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXACTO


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramjet


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_bullet


Image 1:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M777_howitzer

Image 2:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_M82

Image 3:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M777_howitzer


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