Even with the short range of the original Excalibur, the GPS guided shell was quickly accepted as an essential weapon. A more difficult problem was obtaining a new 155mm gun with a longer barrel. The ...
It’s unclear how China has achieved a 100 kilometer range with a 155mm shell. The PLZ-05 is China’s primary self-propelled artillery system and is a 35 ton vehicle that looks like a tank but is armed ...
The M198 155mm howitzer is a towed field artillery piece ... The M198 fires non-fixed (separate projectile and propellant) ammunition and can be loaded with a variable number of propellant bags.
The widely used M109 carries a 155-mm howitzer and is the principal self ... which protects against small-arms fire and shell splinters. The driver is seated at the front left of the hull, with ...
A soldier assigned to 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, prepares M107, 155mm projectile ammunition for an M777 Howitzer during ...
The Air Force recently used the a hypervelocity projectile launched from a 155mm howitzer to down a BQM-167 target drone over the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. We set the footage to ...
Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), released footage of an operation in which its fighters detonated a house in al-Sekka, Jabalia, that had been infiltrated by ...