U.S. Army Plans To Stop Major Research And Development Work On It's 1,000 Mile Range Supergun

Warzone/The Drive: Army's 1,000 Mile Range Supergun Set To See Its Budget Slashed

The Army's Strategic Long Range Cannon program had been planning to demonstrate a prototype weapon by 2023.

The U.S. Army plans to stop major research and development work on a huge artillery piece, intended to be able to hit targets out to a range of 1,000 miles or

more, by the end of this year. Instead, the service wants to move funds it would have spent specifically on this Strategic Long Range Cannon into a more general account that it could use to help mature various advanced technologies.

The update on the Army's plans for the Strategic Long Range Cannon (SLRC) program were contained within its proposed budget for the 2022 Fiscal Year, which was released on May 28, 2021, as part of the larger U.S. military-wide budget request. In lieu of funding for the SLRC line item, the service asked for just over $72.6 million for a new account called Technology Maturation Initiative (TMI) Planning for Super-System and Technology Product Prototyping.

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WNU Editor: It looks like the costs to develop and (maybe) deploy such a system became too high.