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 ...

Russia's army has developed ways to rapidly target Ukraine's artillery. After firing, a Ukrainian cannon can be pinpointed by counterbattery radars and attack drones. Russian tactics are rapidly ...

Lebanon, which is still rebuilding after its own 15-year civil war, has seen clashes between gunmen loyal to opposing sides in the Syrian conflict, as well as strikes on the army and cross-border ...

General Atomics has effectively and cheaply transformed traditional artillery shells into guided missiles, vastly expanding the range and utility of modern cannons. When one thinks of “long-range ...

InsideDefense.com reports today on the “first combat firing of a 155 mm precision artillery shell in Iraq.” The shell, the XM982 Excalibur, was fired at an al Qaeda safe house earlier this month: ...

On the frontlines near this old industrial city, soldiers in the trenches say a shortage of an all-important munition – the 155 millimeter artillery shell – has turned the war in Russia’s favor. Many ...

The US Marine Corps is no stranger to firing live ordnance as part of training, but it had been years — more than 70, according to one US official — since Marines had fired artillery over a stretch of ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States is providing the Lebanese army with a consignment of laser-guided artillery shells in an $8.6 million arms package intended to help Lebanon defend against ...