Army munitions batteries.The Excalibur Program Office would like to add some points to the article in the May 2004 issue entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "Battery Hitches Hamper Performance of Army Smart Munitions mu·ni·tion n. War materiel, especially weapons and ammunition. Often used in the plural. tr.v. mu·ni·tioned, mu·ni·tion·ing, mu·ni·tions To supply with munitions. Programs." We agree that the power supply often is left out of initial designs and that some programs have suffered delays in development due to battery issues. Excalibur, however, is not one of these. In Excalibur's development, batteries were an integral part of the design and were considered in all early design concept trade studies as a critical issue. This has been shown during Excalibur's development in which the batteries have consistently performed well. The two thermal batteries used in the projectile projectile something thrown forward. projectile syringe see blow dart. projectile vomiting forceful vomiting, usually without preceding retching, in which the vomitus is thrown well forward. have met operating life and power requirements during laboratory temperature tests and guidance section integration tests. Both have successfully been through air-gun and rail-gun testing (high-G simulators). The liquid reserve battery did suffer through a similar problem to the SD Fuze fuze n. & v. Variant of fuse1. Noun 1. fuze - any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant fuse, primer, priming, fuzee, fusee program, but the new design has performed quite well. It is important to note that at no time in the conduct of the Excalibur development has any battery caused a delay to testing. We acknowledge that the U.S. industrial base in specialty reserve batteries leaves few options, but the Excalibur program has carefully worked within reasonable limits of battery performance in order to achieve success in this critical area of the guidance section and projectile development. Mr. Allan B. Goldberg's remarks in his IDGA IDGA Institute for Defense and Government Advancement IDGA International Dennis Gabor Award IDGA Indiana Dairy Goat Association IDGA Indiana Deaf Golf Association presentation and subsequent discussions with Mr. Peck were meant to highlight the state of the industrial base, especially with regard to future weapon systems, and not to imply that the Excalibur program has been negatively impacted. Douglas C. Troast U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command The U.S. Army's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC), formally known as Tank-automotive and Armaments Command, (TACOM), headquartered in Warren, MI, is part of AMC, the U.S. Army Materiel Command. |
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