An M982 Excalibur round being fired by Ukrainian forces.Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny / FacebookThe US halted deliveries of GPS-guided Excalibur shells to Ukraine due to high failure rates.Russia had achieved success in jamming of US-supplied weapons, reports said.Classified reports revealed the Excalibur shell strike success dropped from 55% to 6% last summer.The US halted deliveries of Excalibur extended-range guided artillery shells to Ukraine after Kyiv reported high failure rates, anonymous Ukrainian officials told The Washington Post.Six months ago, Ukraine told Washington that Russia's jamming of the guidance systems in several US-supplied weapons had eroded its ability to defend its territory, the officials told the Post.The weapons most affected by the jamming were the Excalibur shells — a GPS-guided 155-mm artillery shell supplied to Ukraine — and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS.In response, the US simply stopped further deliveries of the Excalibur shells, the Ukrainian officials said.The cost of the Excalibur has soared, according to a Government Accountability Office report, to roughly $100,000 per shell in 2022, as much as 50 times the cost of an unguided 155mm shell, before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.Business Insider has reached out to the US Department of Defense for comment on the matter.At one point, only 1 in 19 Excalibur rounds was hitting its targetTwo classified Ukrainian weapons reports seen by The New York Times have since revealed the extent of the issue caused by Russian jamming.From January to August 2023 the proportion of confirmed successful strikes with Excalibur shells dropped from a high of 55% to a low of 7% in July and 6% in August.
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