FORT LEE, Va. (July 11, 2013) -- The Army Artillery Mechanic is no longer a male-only military occupational specialty. Two Soldiers -- Pfc. Jessica Jones and Pfc. Angelika Jansen -- will be the first ...

The future of artillery is a system that can do both offense and defense, the head of U.S. Army Europe and Africa said Wednesday—and the service believes it’s finally at a place to make that happen.

The XM1208 cluster shell, which carries nine M99 Advanced Submunitions, is designed to be fired from both the M109A6/7 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Army’s recently completed conventional fires study determined the service should focus on more autonomous artillery systems with greater range and improved mobility, the ...

MACAPA, Brazil — Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 258th Field Artillery, 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the New York Army National Guard and the field artillery soldiers of ...

The autoloader for the Extended Range Canon Artillery is intended to speed up the rate of fire for greater lethality. (U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — Decisions on the way forward for one of the U.S. Army’s ...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — Breaking in the U.S. Army’s latest mobile armored launcher was all in a day’s work recently for a group of artillerymen in the rural reaches of northeastern Bavaria. Soldiers ...

U.S. Army helicopters airdrop M777 Howitzers, and Soldiers set up and fire the artillery pieces during Exercise Dynamic Front ...

Extended Range Cannon Artillery, or ERCA, was canceled in 2024. The Army is now looking for more readily available self-propelled howitzer options to meet extended range requirements, mobility and the ...

The Army expects production of 155mm artillery shells will jump more than threefold next year from 24,000 per month to between 80,000 and 85,000 per month, said Douglas Bush, assistant secretary of ...