Devastating impact of UK military's first-of-a-kind weapon with 95% kill rate

While focus at the moment might often turn the missiles and munition that the likes of Russia or the US have, the UK is sitting on a first-of-a-kind weapon.

We often hear about Russian missiles with a huge, deadly range or warnings from America while our military has this 155cm weapon said to have a 95 percent kill rate.

I’m talking about Tiberius Aerospace’s Spectre.

Last year, it was announced that the UK Ministry of Defence had a contract with the modern defence technology company for the development of Spectre.

This is described as a ‘revolutionary liquid-fuelled, 155mm Ramjet extended-range precision-guided artillery munition’.

In the spring, Tiberius Aerospace said it had completed a successful demonstration of a new projectile that’s part of the tests for its Spectre liquid munitions.

(Tiberius Aerospace)

Completed in New Mexico, US, the testing saw the projectiles reach ranges of up to 150km which we can compare to the distance of the Ukraine border and Kursk or Belgorod in Russia.

It’s said Tiberius, a UK and US startup, plans to continue testing to increase this range.

Sceptre is described as a ‘guided ramjet liquid-fuelled munition that is launched from a 155mm howitzer class artillery’.

Tiberius says the weapon system is the most cost effective and advanced of its class.

At 155cm in length, it has a 155mm diameter with a launch mass of 47.5kg.

(Tiberius Aerospace)

The company says that: “Sceptre was designed to evolve and adapt as new technology and mission objectives shift. Built with an open architecture, with well defined hardware and software interfaces, enables rapid plug-n-play enhancements. Sceptre is working with a host of payload, guidance and communication providers to ensure every Sceptre is ideally configured to maximize mission success.”

It’s claimed that the munition is designed to guarantee a 95 percent kill probability against fortified or hardened targets.

At a press briefing in London last year, Tiberius founder and CEO Chad Steelberg, was speaking about both the company’s arrival and Spectre.

(Tiberius Aerospace)

He explained that a weapon system’s cost-effective lethality score is important.

“‘If I want to destroy a target at this range, at this distance, in this environment, what is the best weapon and the cheapest weapon I can use, both from a human and logistical overhead standpoint, from manufacturing cost standpoint, to guarantee a 95% kill rate?’ That’s the question we should be asking,” he said.

Following the recent testing, Steelberg said in a statement that it is a ‘genuine world first breakthrough’.

“These tests prove not only the technology, but a new way of delivering capability at pace, at scale and at significantly lower cost,” he said.

“Having successfully proved our design and engineering methodologies, we now need to move to much larger ranges to deliver the next phase of testing, validation and certification. Sceptre is an ambitious and complex project, but these successful US test firing results prove we are quickly advancing along the right trajectory.”