The U.S. Army has renewed interest in new longer-range artillery shells, such as ramjet-powered types, following its axing of plans to buy a next-generation tracked self-propelled 155mm howitzer ...

S outh Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace has begun production of a wheeled variant of its K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzer, marking ...

Oleksii Reznikov, the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, has reported that three types of 155-mm artillery - the M777 howitzer, FH70 howitzer, and Caesar self-propelled howitzer - are already being used ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email networking technologies as they become available. "The PIM is the Army's modernization program for the 155mm ...

YORK, Penn., Oct. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BAE Systems (LSE: BA) successfully fired 155 millimeter projectiles from a M109 Self-Propelled Howitzer modified with the Rheinmetall L52 155mm, 52-caliber ...

Opinion: The lack of a mobile howitzer for Stryker brigades is a glaring capability gap that must be addressed.

A 70-kilometer target range is, by any estimation, a substantial leap forward for artillery; when GPS guided precision 155mm artillery rounds, such as Excalibur, burst into land combat about ten years ...

The Estonian Centre for Defence Investments (ECDI) signed contracts in June 2024 to acquire 12 CAESAR (CAmion Equipé d’un Système d’ARtillerie) wheeled self-propelled howitzers (SPH). The contract ...

Russia’s Uralvagonzavod (UVZ: a subsidiary of state corporation Rostec) has upgraded its STANAG-compatible 2S19M1-155 Msta-S 155 mm self-propelled howitzer (SPH), a spokesperson for Rostec told Jane’s ...

South Korean soldiers sit on the top of a K9 Thunder 155mm self-propelled howitzer during an equipment demonstration on Sept. 10, 2016. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images) SEOUL — Hanwha Defense ...

One of the SCO’s priorities was adapting technology from “railguns”. Such guns use neither explosives nor propellant, but instead rely on electromagnetic forces to fire projectiles at speeds of up to ...

The XM123 is an experimental weapon that mated an auxiliary propulsion engine to a standard 155MM medium towed howitzer. Three prototypes underwent extensive testing at Rock Island Arsenal's Research ...