defilade. It will achieve milestone B in FY18.


• 40 mm Door Breach, LV, XM1167: Allows for


an in-stride ballistic


breach—eliminating the need to set up additional, cumbersome equipment— of a door at ranges up to 50 meters, creating an entry point into a building or other urban structure. It will achieve milestone B in FY18.


• 40 mm HV, Improved High Explo- sive Dual Purpose (I-HEDP): Provides enhanced accuracy and lethality to defeat a target in the open and in defilade. It will achieve milestone B in FY18.


ENHANCED TRAINING Training on the systems that Soldiers use in combat, including the 40 mm grenade family, improves readiness and mission effectiveness. Te Army and other ser- vices use 40 mm grenade machine guns and grenade launchers within the tacti- cal environment for offense, defense, patrolling and urban operations in all environments, day and night. Improve- ments in night-fighting capabilities, including thermal sights, and battlefield


FIGURE 2 GAP BREACHER


With current ammunition options, warfighters lack the ability to engage personnel targets in defilade—concealed by obstacles like hills or walls. PM MAS is working on a handful of options that will eliminate that gap. (SOURCE: PM MAS)


tactics have led to training gaps for LV grenade training. Additionally, unex- ploded ordnance (UXO) concerns restrict HV grenade training to static firing ranges, which allow only dud- producing munitions and limited maneuver train- ing. Dud-producing munitions are rounds that contain explosives in which the fuze has not initiated. Although the M918 Training Round contains very lit- tle explosive and the probability of a dud is less than 1 percent, it still can pose a UXO risk. (See Figure 1, Page 40.)


By FY19, the 40 mm TP-DNT program will make training more realistic by delivering 40 mm HV and LV grenade training cartridges with impact signa- tures that can be seen at any time, by the unaided eye and through current and future thermal and night vision sights. Te cartridges will contain pyrophoric material, which produces the visible sig- nature and replaces the existing explosive, thereby removing the UXO risk and allowing Soldiers to conduct maneuver training exercises. In addition, the pro- gram will provide the Army a significant cost savings over the munitions life cycle while increasing warfighter readiness. A cost-benefit analysis, submitted with the


requirements packet, showed that over a five-year production time frame, HV TP- DNT saves approximately $98 million over current M918 costs, and LV TP- DNT saves about $3 million over current M781 costs.


Airburst technology is being developed for the M203/M320 weapon platform to provide rapid defeat of defilade person- nel targets at extended ranges, effectively increasing warfighter readiness by pro- viding state-of-the-art technology with new engagement capabilities. When deployed against point and area targets, such as a single enemy combatant in defi- lade or multiple enemy combatants in the open, the HEAB XM1166 cartridge will enable a grenadier to inflict incapacitat- ing effects against personnel at increased ranges beyond those offered by the cur- rent M433 HEDP—up to 600 meters, from the current range of 400. (See Fig- ure 2.) Additionally, the increased range of the XM1166 will allow grenadiers to employ lethal effects against targets throughout the full range of military operations with improved accuracy and at greater standoff ranges, increasing survivability.


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