Image courtesy of Cobb Police Department/Facebook Archaeologists digging at a Civil War battlefield site recently discovered a live artillery shell. The canister may not have exploded, but it’s probably still dangerous. It was fired from a so-called “Parrott gun”, a type of artillery popular during the war. A dig at a Civil War battle site […]
Artillery Market Study 2022-2027: Get a sample report Survey before purchase Order the report now The Global Artillery Market report provides insight into the global industry including valuable facts and figures. This research study explores the global market in detail like industry chain structures, raw material suppliers, along with manufacturing. The Artillery Sales Market examines […]
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RICHMOND, Virginia – In early 2022, the Virginia National Guard placed special emphasis on recruiting 13B Cannon crewmen offering a $20,000 sign-up bonus to those who enlist for six years. Currently, the big $20,000 bonus is only available for Military Occupational Specialty 13B, or MOS. “The Army is expanding its artillery force, and Virginia […]
Since World War II, the US military has reduced the importance of artillery, relying on air power to support troops. In recent years, Russia and China have made significant progress in their artillery forces. The US military is currently developing several land-based weapons capable of firing over tens or even hundreds of kilometers. Loading Something […]
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An IBCS Engagement Operations Center (EOC) set up at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico for limited user testing. (Northrop Grumman) History updated 1/24/22 11:00 a.m. ET to clarify that the Army did not fire on targets being tracked for this exercise. WASHINGTON: The U.S. Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Combat Command (IBCS) system […]
Chief of the Defense Staff (CDS), Vice Admiral Seth Amoama on Tuesday inaugurated the quartermaster artillery training school at Akoefe, near Ho. “This marks an important step in the military high command’s quest to support the development of the artillery corps in general and the school in particular,” he said. Vice Admiral Amoama assured that […]
WARREN, Mich. – U.S. Army purchases upgraded, fast-moving large-caliber field artillery guns with digital vetronics and modern feed systems, along with their companion tracked armored fighting vehicles, as part of an order for 97 .3 million announced on Friday. Army Contracting Command-Tank and Automotive officials in Warren, Michigan, are requesting additional M109A7 self-propelled howitzer artillery […]
According to information released by the US Department of Defense on January 4, 2022, soldiers from the Wisconsin US Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 121st Field Artillery, a mobility artillery unit equipped with HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) M142 conducts training before deploying to the Middle East in support of Operation Spartan Shield.Follow Army […]
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The former 2nd Infantry Division Artillery senior NCO will be demoted and reprimanded after a jury of officers found him guilty of abusive sexual contact with a junior enlisted soldier and attempted fraternization, according to a spokesman for the command. sergeant. Maj. Dustin Bice, who will also lose half his salary for three months, was […]
Fort Campbell, Kentucky – Soldiers from Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion, 320th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), fired field artillery as part of the survivability training of the Chef Professional Development on November 10, 2021 at Fort Campbell, Ky. The objective of LPD survivability training was to demonstrate the protection […]
When talking about the Vietnam War and his involvement in the conflict, Gaston County native Mick McMahan’s face reflects a myriad of emotions. Pride in his service to his country is deeply tied to the way he lives his life. And in that, you feel the deep affinity for the brave men who fought alongside […]
From Dante’s Inferno to Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, there are many depictions of hell that make you think twice about the possibility of an afterlife. In fact, they have a lot in common with the M777 howitzer, a 155mm artillery piece that can send unhappy souls into the world beyond up to 25 miles away, depending […]
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The Army recently announced the reactivation of the 56th Artillery Command in Europe, which was deactivated in 1991 following the signing of the now defunct Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The move is one piece of the larger puzzle the service is solving about how to place its multi-domain task forces in effective positions for competition, […]
DRAWSKO POMORSKIE TRAINING AREA, Poland (10/25/2021) – At the start of Victory Eagle, a joint exercise where the 1st Infantry Division (1ID) 1st Armored Combat Brigade (1ABCT) and 1st Infantry Brigade combat aviation conducted joint and bilateral training with the Polish Land Forces (PLF), soldiers and leaders began to prepare for a number of different […]
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Army field artillery units are expected to make a much more with their big guns than in the recent past and more is in store as new systems and better platforms and ammunition reach strength. To train these cannon cockers so they are ready to deliver devastating fire on command, the Field Artillery School Commander […]
The preferred caliber was 155/52 depending on desired ranges and other desired operational performance parameters. By Col Ashwani Sharma, Recently the Corps of Indian Artillery commemorated its Levy Day, now is a good time to review its ambitious rationalization plan and its progress so far. The Indian Army’s Field Artillery Rationalization Program, devised in the […]
Lt Gen TK Chawla, Director General of Artillery, highlighted the importance of indigenous manufacturing in the defense sector The Indian Army’s modernization plan to procure 3,000–3,600 indigenous howitzers by 2025-27 has run into problems. The Indian Army planned to acquire Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS) and Dhanush, known as ‘Desi Bofors’, under the Field […]
New Delhi: Twenty-two years after the Army finalized the Field Artillery Rationalization Program (FARP), under which a mix of approximately 3,000 to 3,600 howitzers were to be procured by 2025-27, the modernization plan faces misfires as two major indigenous programs failed to fully fire. At a press conference Monday on the eve of Gunners’ Day, […]
Getting started to solve problems with Dhanush natives, towed artillery guns, says director general of artillery Getting started to solve problems with Dhanush natives, towed artillery guns, says director general of artillery Improved roads in border areas and the introduction of Chinook heavy-lift helicopters will allow the army to quickly deploy artillery guns to forward […]
The Army’s next-generation artillery system can pin targets at twice the range of the service’s existing howitzers, but apparently it will remain nameless for now despite recent social media posts from its newest unit of operational test. According to the photos recently put online by the 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment, the army had […]
Brig. Gen. Andrew D. Preston left, the Field Artillery School Commandant and Army Artillery Chief, joins Capt. Daniel Rogers, the Alpha Battery Commander, 1st Battalion, 258th field artillery by affixing an award streamer to the company’s front sight during a ceremony honoring the unit held in New Windsor, New York on September 11, 2001. The […]
European nations are engaged to a large extent in the modernization of artillery means. Finland, Norway, Denmark, Croatia, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Baltic States have recently decided to procure 155 mm artillery means and/or ammunition. Other nations – Germany or the Czech Republic – are engaged in a process of […]
IIt was in 1999 that India finalized the Field Artillery Rationalization Program. It was to become the backbone of India’s fire assault in all future wars, especially in the mountains. After all, the Bofors gun had proven itself in the Kargil conflict in 1999 with its targeted shelling of enemy positions that enabled infantry to […]
New Delhi: Confirmatory desert trials of the indigenous Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS), developed by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) with private companies Bharat Forge and TATA Power SED, will begin in June.Sources from the ATAGS development program told ThePrint that after this year’s summer trials, orders can be placed in industry, […]