LOSAT and the problem of finding a role beside artillery

What is the assessment of LOSAT, and was this anti-tank missile a useful idea despite the programme's failure?

The main explanation is competition with artillery and the difficulty of justifying a separate system despite the hypervelocity concept's technical promise.

LOSAT is assessed as a cancelled missile development with roots in a hypervelocity weapon project. Its technical promise leaves a separate question about what role the army needs it to perform. Competition with artillery is the main explanation offered for why such a system could struggle to justify itself. Artillery's continuing usefulness underlies that argument, which supplies no detailed account of the cancellation decision.