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Cannon Assembled in Okla. Scrapped By Defense Budget Cuts
posted 04/06/09
2:55 pm
The high-tech cannon, which had been pushed by Sen Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., was essentially a self-propelled howitzer with a two-man crew and a firing range of more than 18 miles.
A production facility for the new artillery system opened last year in Elgin on the outskirts of Fort Sill.
The 10,000-square-foot facility was for construction of initial components for the Non-Line-of-Sight, or NLOS, cannon vehicles.
A separate facility was planned at Elgin's Fort Sill Industrial to be used as the final assembly point for the vehicles.
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