Self-propelled howitzers are the steel backbone of modern artillery warfare—combining raw firepower with battlefield mobility to deliver devastating strikes deep behind enemy lines. Leading the charge ...

In 2005, the Army and Marine Corps began fielding the M777, a much smaller, lighter (9,000 pounds lighter) and more maneuverable towed cannon weapon ... enabling artillery units to move faster ...

Artillery is the most important weapon on the modern battlefield ... activity last fall,” Bush said of the Extended-Range Cannon Artillery, a new model of the existing M-109 tracked howitzer ...

FACT: Restrictive gun control laws are a distinctly modern phenomenon in the United States. For the first century of American history ... In fact, private cannon ownership was apparently so ...