US
Army's Crusader
Real-time equipment control systems aboard a self-propelled howitzer
The US Army's Crusader
field artillery system is a two-vehicle system that consists of a fully automated 155mm self-propelled
howitzer and a resupply vehicle. Crusader can fire up to 12 rounds per minute and can travel at cross-country
speeds of 48 kilometers per hour, highway speeds of 78 kilometers per hour, and dash speeds of 750 meters
in 90 seconds. Crusader was conceived to replace the Paladin howitzer cannon.
LynxOS® was chosen to provide on-board processing of required functions such as Crusader's
ballistic calculations, the graphical user interface and real-time equipment control systems.
When LynxOS was selected, it already supported the microprocessors and specialty boards
that were running on the Crusader, thus eliminating the need to port an OS
to new hardware.