Tag: howitzer

Britain is sending 20 mobile artillery pieces and tens of thousands of shells to Ukraine for what some military analysts expect to become the most extensive artillery campaign since World War II.

Learn about the Excalibur GPS-guided artillery round that Canada is sending to Ukraine along with four howitzers to fire them. The Excalibur Round can put 48 pounds of high explosives through the sunroof of your SUV from 40 miles away.

Service members participate in a live-fire event at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, during Operation Wardog Kila, a joint Army-Marine Corps exercise.

Paratroopers conduct a heavy drop and fire mission during Exercise Panther Storm on the Salerno Drop Zone at Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov. 5, 2020.

Soldiers fire an M777 howitzer at Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov. 4, 2020, during Panther Storm, a brigade-level training exercise.

Serving in the military forces you to develop a number of unusual skill sets that aren’t necessarily specific to war-fighting, and many of them involve sleep. The ability to go for extended periods of time without rest becomes paramount in uniform, as does your ability to catch up on that sleep deficit at unusual times […]

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has begun soliciting pitches from military vendors to build a test bed for a “magnetized plasma artillery” system, said to be capable of firing projectiles in excess of Mach 6. The weapon system, which was first patented in 2015, wouldn’t fire plasma, but would rather leverage it to enable the […]

Hypersonic missile technologies represent a fundamental shift in the way modern wars are waged. These platforms under development in Russia, China, and the United States travel at speeds in excess of Mach 5, making them all but impossible to intercept using existing missile defense systems. The seemingly unstoppable nature of these weapon platforms has forced […]

Throughout nearly two decades of anti-terrorism and counter-insurgency warfare, the United States has continued to rely on long standing and reliable weapons platforms like the M777 Howitzer and the M1109AG Paladin Howitzer. These artillery platforms are capable of delivering a massive punch from a long distance — but as the U.S. Army is beginning to […]

The Pentagon has submitted a request to Congress to reallocate some $4.7 billion toward higher priority programs aimed at making the American defense apparatus more capable and lethal in the shortest timeline possible. The funds would be drawn from programs deemed “lower priority” by Defense Department officials, and redistributed into programs that could offset growing […]

Most Americans today have grown up in the strange bubble provided by U.S. military dominance around the world where our domestic concerns about war rarely extend beyond the political sphere. We don’t worry about things like winning or losing wars. We may lament things like the cost, the politics, or the toll it takes on […]

Howitzers have a long and storied history of reliably providing indirect fire on battlefields around the world.  These massive guns fire 105-millimeter shells at enemy targets at more than seven miles away, or rocket-propelled shells at targets further than 12 miles.  Although howitzers are traditionally employed far away from the fighting, hence the massive distances […]