The Army is starting formal production of a new Self-Propelled Howitzer variant engineered for faster movement, better structural protection, improved drive-train ability, new suspension and advanced ...

The Army’s new Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) has now hit a record 43 miles. That’s the longest verified distance for a howitzer. But a new Russian howitzer might be able to shoot just as far, ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- A 93-year old who fired 258th Field Artillery guns at Nazi troops in World War II was on hand as the New York Army National Guard battalion's artillerymen fired the Army's latest ...

How the use of artillery is changing during the Russian-Ukrainian war and what new weapons have already appeared, and are yet ...

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently introduced a type of newly developed assault vehicle-based howitzer, which experts said on Wednesday is more mobile than truck-based howitzers and ...

Move over, 88 mm cannon, there is a new big gun in the Flying Heritage Collection. The M55 carries a massive 8-inch (203.2 mm) howitzer. The projectiles for the gun (designated M47) are so big, the ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - The breach opens, a pair of cannon crewmen load one 155 millimeter caliber artillery round into the chamber of the 35 foot weapon. The smell of gunpowder lingers in ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The gun can theoretically reach places that a towed gun could not – although, since towed guns can now be strapped to helicopters and carried to otherwise ...

December 5, 2005 The Chinese were the first to experiment with explosive powders around 300 AD but it was not until 1252, when the secret ingredients of those powders were documented in an essay by ...