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 ...
Artillery shells are inspected in the production shop at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, April 2023. (Hannah Beier/Getty Images) The U.S. Army has started diversifying its supplier base for 155mm ...
March 6, 2025: While drones now cause most of the casualties in Ukraine, there is still some use for towed and self-propelled 155mm artillery. One reason is that artillery can quickly destroy armored ...
How the use of artillery is changing during the Russian-Ukrainian war and what new weapons have already appeared, and are yet ...
DONETSK OBLAST – Hiding beneath sparse winter cover in a crude, muddy ditch, a great steel monster lies in wait for an opportunity to attack. Adorned on either side with painted plus signs, the gun’s ...
On today’s battlefields, artillery remains the king of combat. More than seventy percent of casualties in the war between Ukraine and Russia come from artillery fire, making shell supply a decisive ...
The U.S. Army has greenlit a new facility to support production of in-demand artillery shells, after stockpiles shrank following shipments to Ukraine and Israel. MSM Group North America Inc. was ...
Ever since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the headlines have been filled with HIMARS rockets that can hit targets nearly 200 miles away; hypersonic missiles that can reach ...
Russian forces in Ukraine are burning through military equipment, figures from Ukraine indicate, as Moscow fast approaches new milestones for materiel losses ahead of the second anniversary of the ...
At the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 18, Czech defense policy chief Jan Jires startled his audience when he announced his government had identified 800,000 artillery shells “sitting in ...
Ukraine is destroying record amounts of Russian artillery by deploying increasingly effective systems to locate and target big guns. In the last few weeks the action has shifted up a gear, with ...