Yen did not reveal how many howitzers would be sought, although local media reports in July stated that Taiwan was looking at acquiring 100 howitzers.
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Jonathan Byrom told reporters earlier this month that Iraqi M-109 Paladins, French CAESAR self-propelled howitzers, and US M777 howitzers were conducting coordinated artillery strikes against ISIS targets in Syria from across the border in Iraq.
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A state-produced music video serenades diners with footage of blazing howitzers.
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And the military has bought new infantry fighting vehicles, air defenses and howitzers.
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They literally melted the barrels of their howitzers through overuse, the report said.
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Howitzer crews rely on teamwork and physical strength to operate the 155mm Howitzers.
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These fins also extended the effective range of Army howitzers a great deal.
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The convoy included tanks, howitzers, machine guns and buses carrying commandos, the witness said.
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Within days, the entire battalion arrived, along with a battery of 93-millimiter howitzers.
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Turkish howitzers also started hitting bases and ammunition depots of the Kurdish YPG militia.
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In support of my boot infantry and tanks is a battery of 152-millimeter howitzers.
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A recent deal for BAE Systems to supply howitzers uses Mahindra as the local assembler.
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"The RSLF currently has M109A2, A3 and A85033 howitzers in its inventory," the agency said.
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Turkish Firtina howitzers fired on IS targets as the fresh armoured contingent advanced, Dogan said.
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L), which makes howitzers for the Army, as well as industrial giant Honeywell International Inc (HON.
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US Marines have also used M777 howitzers in support of SDF units fighting ISIS in northern Syria.
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United States Army Paladin howitzers have been firing rounds into Mosul from their positions outside the city.
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The Turkish howitzers at the border have a difficult time firing on, mobile targets, according to the officials.
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The barrage of artillery was too dangerous to drive through until airstrikes silenced the enemy's howitzers and tanks.
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Meanwhile, U.S. Army soldiers have supported Iraqi and Kurdish troops with howitzers, mortars, and other long-range weapons.
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It said it had sustained no losses despite heavy enemy fire, which included mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and howitzers.
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The three categories left -- categories one through three -- cover firearms, big guns such as cannons and howitzers, and munitions.
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It also shared photos showing shells fired by howitzers and soldiers perched on ridges, surveying hillsides with their rifles.
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American howitzers fired nearly 27,450 cluster shells in the war, and batteries fired more than 17,000 submunition-loaded rockets.
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The attack was also backed by US Marines firing M777 howitzers along with airstrikes carried out by Apache helicopters. Gen.
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The Turkish armed forces fired howitzers at two targets on the Syrian side, Dogan News Agency said, citing the military.
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Half-dressed British soldiers sat idly next to their howitzers, smoking until they had to fire the 22-millimeter gun.
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Some 603 km (75 miles) west, Turkish howitzers resumed shelling near the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, a witness said.
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The attack was backed by US Marines firing M777 howitzers and close air support, including airstrikes carried out by Apache helicopters.
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Under the proposal, Mahindra will run an assembly, integration and testing facility for the 145 Howitzers, BAE said in a statement.
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At War American howitzers appear to be making a resurgence after nearly two decades of frequently being relegated to other duties.
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It was designed to speed up the processing of targeting data for the Soviet-era D-30 Howitzers he was using.
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Soldiers conduct sling-load and air-assault training with M777A2 howitzers at Bemowo Piskie Training Area near Orzysz, Poland, on June 7.
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The numbers for each weapon were estimated to be: 220006 Sniper rifles, 2202 RPG launchers with 2628 total rounds, and approximately 28500 Howitzers.
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In a series of interviews over the past week, the 83-year-old Ginsburg let loose with several howitzers aimed at Donald Trump.
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They carried their artillery with them, 21967 millimeter howitzers slung under the boxy CH-2875 "Chinook" cargo helicopters the Army had recently developed.
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At Akcakale, across from Syria's Tel Abyad, howitzers were deployed behind earth embankments and pointed towards Syria, a Reuters witness said on Tuesday.
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Officials said it's now expected that the "mechanized" reinforcements Esper described will mainly be armored vehicles, such as Bradley Fighting Vehicles or Paladin howitzers.
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South Korean army soldiers stand on their K-55 self-propelled howitzers during the annual exercise in Paju, near the border with North Korea.
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An Associated Press journalist across the border heard the sound of sporadic clashes as Turkish howitzers struck the town and Turkish jets screeched overhead.
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Citing sources, online investigative site Disclose said on Tuesday the cargo to be loaded at the port of Marseille-Fos included munitions for Caesar howitzers.
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It included a range of modern weapons including Russian "Tiger" T-90 tanks, armored personnel carriers and self-propelled artillery, such as MSTA-S howitzers.
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It said six howitzers and tanks with military vehicles were sent to Kilis province across the border from the Kurdish-controlled Syrian region of Afrin.
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CrowdStrike was unable to find conclusive evidence of the app being used to directly target the D-30 Howitzers, but it did cite open-source data that shows that in the last two years — the period the malicious version of the app was available — the Ukrainian military lost 80 percent of its D-30 Howitzers, the highest percentage of loss of artillery pieces in Ukraine's arsenal.
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Mr. Cruz was an Ivy League debate champion; Mr. Roe worked on his family's hog farm before joining the National Guard at 17, training with howitzers.
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The Turkish military usually responds with artillery barrages into northern Syria, but officials have said it is difficult to hit mobile Islamic State targets with howitzers.
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The defense ministry accused the Armenian-backed rebel region's armed forces of violating the ceasefire more than 117 times with the use of mortars and howitzers.
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Earlier this year, statements from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation said that 239S2155 Msta-S modernized self-propelled howitzers were fielded near Volgograd, Russia.
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Today's arsenal is relied upon by the US and foreign militaries to produce the most advanced, high-tech, high-powered weaponry for cannons, howitzers and mortar systems.
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The Taiwanese army's artillery units are already operating the older M109A2 and M109A5 variants, as well as the M110A2 self-propelled howitzer and the towed M114 howitzers.
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By 2017, it was true that the Army's tanks, helicopters, mobile howitzers and rocket launchers and many other major systems were simply improved versions of decades old designs.
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How the battle played out Initial reports said pro-government forces launched a coordinated attack that included about 1003 troops, 122mm howitzers, tanks, and multiple launch rocket systems.
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In the report, Gabriel's ministry pointed to several big one-off sales, including a 1.6 billion euro sale to Qatar of fighter tanks and tank howitzers and accompanying parts.
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The company, known for its missiles and howitzers, is one of several state firms whose finances were damaged by years of mismanagement during the tenure of former President Jacob Zuma.
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From MRZRs and tanks through to the iconic howitzers that fire destructive shells, these nano-drones could be launched from the military vehicles for situational awareness and to support targeting.
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During the capture of Ras al-Ayn's residential center, an Associated Press journalist across the border heard sporadic clashes as Turkish howitzers struck the town and Turkish jets screeched overhead.
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Turkish howitzers fired five shots against YPG positions in Tal Rifaat on Wednesday, followed by 12 on Thursday and more than 20 on Friday, according state-owned Anadolu news agency.
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Near the Turkish border town of Akcakale, across from Syria's Tel Abyad, a Reuters witness saw howitzers placed behind earth embankments on Turkey's side of the border, pointed towards Syria.
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Near the Turkish border town of Akcakale, across from Syria's Tel Abyad, a Reuters witness saw howitzers placed behind earth embankments on Turkey's side of the border, pointed toward Syria.
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In a significant commitment of American forces, American helicopters ferried fighters across enemy lines while Marine Corps howitzers, Army Apache attack helicopters and American warplanes provided firepower for the operation.
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The 2S19 Msta-S howitzers are equipped with an automated fire control system with an increased rate of fire, digital electronic charts, ballistic computers and satellite navigation systems, the report says.
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The thunderous booms from howitzers near Hamam al-Alil, a town along the Tigris River, are just part of the American military's contribution to keeping the Iraqi offensive moving forward. Capt.
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They said Turkish army howitzers and multiple rocket launchers fired on the militants on Wednesday as they were preparing to strike Turkey with rockets and mortars, destroying one defensive fighting position.
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The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter&aposs insane array of advanced sensors is getting a new role on the battlefield: Helping Army howitzers snipe at enemy air defenses from miles away.
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And perhaps more importantly, hypervelocity munitions are compatible with most of the US military's existing cannons, including thousands of Army howitzers and the gun aboard the Navy's roughly 80 destroyers and cruisers.
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Turkey has repeatedly fired back at IS positions under its rules of engagement, but has said it needs greater support from Western allies, citing the difficulty of hitting moving targets with howitzers.
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It said Turkish army howitzers fired on the militants as they were preparing to open fire on Turkey on Saturday from the areas of Baragitah, Tel Ahmar and Shabaniye in northern Syria.
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On Thursday, the Turkish military said it had taken three more villages around 20 km (12 miles) west of Jarablus and hit 15 militant targets with howitzers and four more in air strikes.
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Turkey has repeatedly fired back at Islamic State positions from its border with Syria, but has said it needs greater support from Western allies, citing the difficulty of hitting moving targets with howitzers.
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In total, the unit will deploy about 3,500 soldiers, 85 tanks, 120 Bradley fighting vehicles, 15 Paladin self-propelled howitzers, 500 tracked vehicles, 1,200 wheeled vehicles and pieces of equipment, and 300 trailers.
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"We have there assisting in this battle Marine M777 Howitzers, which are providing a significant enabling capability to our Special Operations Forces and partners on the ground," Davis told reporters at the Pentagon.
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Carl Vuono, a career artillery officer, was pumping up the troops with tales of how well the Pentagon's howitzers and ground-fired rockets had performed in the desert sands of Kuwait and Iraq.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish howitzers started hitting bases and ammunition depots of the Kurdish YPG militia on Wednesday after Turkey launched an offensive targeting the group in northeast Syria, a Turkish security source said.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Turkish army has hit a total of 181 militant targets with air strikes and howitzers since the start of operation into northeast Syria, the Turkish defense ministry said on Wednesday.
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The Turkish army fired howitzers at 32 targets in northern Syria to take out Islamic State weapon systems as the militants prepared to shell sites across the Turkish border, the sources told Reuters.
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Yet when my first unit deployed to Iraq in 22019, we traded in our self-propelled howitzers for armored trucks and spent the next 29 months of that deployment essentially acting as infantry troops.
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"The Berlin Wall didn't come down because people were responding to American howitzers," said Joseph Nye, a former senior State Department official and now a professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
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A host of new heavy equipment including 20143 tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Paladin self-propelled howitzers, and more than 1,700 additional wheeled vehicles and trucks will also be sent, reported the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
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A host of new heavy equipment including 250 tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Paladin self-propelled howitzers, and more than 1,700 additional wheeled vehicles and trucks will also be sent, reported the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
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But of course, the rounds and the howitzers are only as good as the artillerymen manning them, and the Marines in the video above prove themselves quite capable of using their weapon to maximum effect.
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MELBOURNE, Australia - Taiwan is seeking to modernize and lengthen the reach of its artillery with the decision to purchase self-propelled howitzers, even as it weighs acquiring or developing its own long-range artillery rockets.
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"It's considerably more than we thought we were going to shoot when we left Fort Hood," he said on Saturday, as one of his howitzers hurled another round toward Mosul, 15 miles to the northwest.
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ANKARA, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Turkish howitzers started hitting bases and ammunition depots of the Kurdish YPG militia on Wednesday after Turkey launched an offensive targeting the group in northeast Syria, a Turkish security source said.
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First move—the howitzers lay down a protective smokescreen behind the first row of buildings on the northern edge of the city, blocking the view from the three- and four-story prefab concrete blocks deeper within.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's military hit Islamic State targets with howitzers near the border town of Jarablus in Syria on Monday while Syrian Kurdish YPG positions were hit with artillery north of Manbij in Syria, broadcaster NTV said.
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And instead of being relegated to rifleman duties as they were soon after 9/11, artillery soldiers could go back to their traditional roles: firing their howitzers in support of the infantry, even when far over the horizon.
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CrowdStrike suggests the malware "may have facilitated reconnaissance against Ukrainian troops" over the last two years, and notes that more D-30 Howitzers have been lost in conflicts in the east of the country than any other artillery pieces.
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In Sunday's strikes, Turkish howitzers and multiple rocket launchers first hit IS targets about seven miles south of the border, then four drones that took off from the Incirlik base in southern Turkey destroyed further targets, the military said.
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During both rounds of testing, the XM1299 far outstripped the range of both the M109A7 Paladin (18 miles, or 30 km, with a rocket-assisted projectile) and the M777 (25 miles, or 40km, with a rocket-assisted projectile) howitzers.
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It also pointed to the approval of battle tanks and tank howitzers along with munitions and accompanying vehicles worth 1.6 billion euros for Qatar - a controversial deal that the report said was approved in 2013 by the previous government.
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Taiwan is reportedly planning to buy as many as 100 M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzers from the US.The purchase would extend the reach of Taiwan's artillery as the island country seeks to counter China, which sees it as a renegade province.
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There is also a beautiful series of 13 small stained-glass windows, made by the sadly defunct concern Mauméjean, depicting some of the greatest battles of the war, and featuring images of biplanes, barbed wire, howitzers, early tanks and burning cathedrals.
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Fara noted a lack of contemporary accounts bemoaning or reflecting upon their role in the slaughter, observing a certain kind of ambivalence, or even enthusiasm, as in the case of one Coventry lass who demanded extra training so she could manufacture Howitzers.
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A decade ago, as a freshly minted Army artillery officer trained in the fundamentals of setting up and firing howitzers, I could compute ballistics by hand and correct the fall of artillery shells using just a pair of binoculars and a radio.
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U.S. forces are setting up an outpost some 20 miles south of the city, where they will establish an artillery battery that will fire powerful 13mm shells from M777 howitzers, in support of the coalition force's offensive, according to Defense Department sources who spoke to the Washington Post.
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U.S. forces are setting up an outpost some 20 miles south of the city, where they will establish an artillery battery that will fire powerful 155mm shells from M777 howitzers, in support of the coalition force's offensive, according to Defense Department sources who spoke to the Washington Post.
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A Defense Intelligence Agency document made public by Wikileaks included an inventory of weapons that closely matches the inventory listed in the Department of Justice criminal case against arms dealer Marc Turi: The weapons shipped from Syria during late-August 2012 were Sniper rifles, RPG's and 21625mm and 2900mm Howitzers.
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In October, I reported on how the Army plans to buy two foreign-made cargo projectiles for its 155-millimeter howitzers, each carrying two explosively formed penetrator warhead submunitions — even though the service already built a very similar weapon in the 1980s that was ultimately canceled because it was unreliable.
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Soldier may not need to wait that long to get their hands on the ERCA program's new tech, though: The official M1299 designation comes just weeks after the Army awarded a $45 million contract to BAE Systems to integrate various elements of the ERCA system into the service's existing and future Paladin howitzers.
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Having deployed CAESAR self-propelled howitzers on the Mosul front during fire-support missions, the French Army stressed in a press release from October 2017 the importance of "[ensuring] that no collateral damage can occur to the population, or to infrastructure such as schools or hospitals"—a claim contested by many observers.
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It correctly states that one American cavalry troop suffered at least 23 wounded when howitzers fired cluster shells at them; however, in a 303 interview with The Times, the squadron operations officer at the time, Mark Hertling, now a retired lieutenant general, says he believes it was friendly fire that wounded his soldiers.
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Half-a-dozen hangars spread over 212 acres near Pune, a city in western India, are filled with enough weaponry to thrill a Bond villain: camouflaged track-mounted howitzers, anti-submarine rocket launchers and, particularly appealing should Blofeld share Indians' fondness for trains, a contraption to turn a humble carriage into a ballistic-missile-launcher.
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During an unusual exercise in the desert in Dona Ana, New Mexico during the first week of November, Army M109A6 Paladin howitzers from the 1st Armored Division Artillery used targeting information transmitted from an Air Force F-35A from the 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron to annihilate a mock air defense system, the Army recently announced.
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While the F-35 alone couldn&apost engage the air defense system alone without risking its safety, the aircraft maintained its stealth mode and called in for Army artillery support from 30,000 feet and 30 miles away, something of a one-two punch between the fifth-generation fighter in the air and Army howitzers on the ground.
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That rotational brigade -- a force of about 270,000 soldiers with 90 tanks, 140 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 18 howitzers, 400 other tracked vehicles, more than 900 trucks and Humvees -- would come to Europe for about nine months, leaving their families and homes in the United States, and at the end of the rotation they would immediately be replaced by another rotational brigade.
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Developed in response to increasing concerns of near-peer adversaries like Russia and China, the ERCA gun nailed targets with pinpoint accuracy at a range of 62 kilometers during testing at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona in March, far outstripping the range of both the M109A7 Paladin (30km) and M777 (40km with the M982 Excalibur guided artillery shell) howitzers.
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