Global Military Products also announced Dec. 17 that the U.S. Army had chosen its Serbian partner Yugoimport’s NORA B-52 155mm wheeled howitzer for the shoot-off as well. Serbia's Yugoimport has been chosen to provide the Nora B-52 155mm Howitzer System Firing Desert for the U.S. ...
In October 2018, BAE Systems was awarded a contract by the Nato Support and Procurement Agency to supply Bofors 155mm BONUS ammunition to the US Army’s M777 howitzers. In November 2021, the US Army purchased additional 155mm BONUS precision-guided munitions for use with M777 towed ultra-ligh...
The US Army has begun receiving its first production-model M109A7 Paladin Integrated Management (PIM) self-propelled howitzers (SPHs) and held a ceremony on 9 April to mark the new system's arrival. The army and prime contractor BAE Systems are in the process of finalising a low-rate ...
United States of America (1944-1945) Utility Vehicle – Prototypes Only The T33 Cargo Carrier and T13 Armored Utility Vehicle were designed in the United States of America during the Second World War. The T13 and T33 occupy a space in development as transition vehicles in the sense that ...
Cold War US Tactics 1989 US Invasion of Panama United States of America vs Republic of Panama The construction of a short cut from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans was a pipe dream for much of the 19th century for both the British and Americans. If a canal existed, then trade would ...
Ukrainian soldiers are learning to use howitzers sent by the U.S. The training takes a week -- time they may not have before Russia's offensive hits full throttle. David Martin has the details.
The UK has yet to decide whether the future MFP will be a wheeled or tracked system and in a recent press briefing, the British Army’s Head of Strategy Brigadier John Clark told reporters that options for the programme include upgrading the AS-90 fleet to meet modern threats. ...
The US Army of 1939 had no flamethrowers, but they were quickly developed by the Chemical Corps and issued to the combat engineers. The first model (E1-R1) came into use in 1942 in New Guinea but proved very weak and unreliable: '... Cpl Tirrell crawled through the underbrush to a ...
In WW2, the United States Marine Corps used Native Americans for tactical communications; the United States Army also made some attempts, though the scale of effort was much smaller. With Native American languages already being an infrequently-spoken language, the USMC Native American code talkers ...
US Army photo On April 1, 1970, three regiments of North Vietnamese troops numbering 10,000 began shelling Camp Dak Seang, intent on taking the camp. The North Vietnamese artillery pounded the camp, and Beikirch was wounded when shrapnel from a 122 mm rocket bruised his spinal column, ...