If you have ever wondered what it would look like if a freight train crashed into an artillery piece, that’s been answered. On Thursday Sept. 12, a M109 Paladin was being transported on a low ...

The widely used M109 carries a 155-mm howitzer and is the principal self-propelled artillery support for ... Later versions, including the M109A6 Paladin, have a 39-caliber barrel.

Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Daliege’s mobile artillery system was exposed for less than a minute as it darted across a dusty road ...

The Paladin is a mobile, armored 155mm artillery system intended as the ... research think tank Lexington Institute. Goure has a background in the public sector and U.S. federal government ...

An M109A6 Paladin howitzer of Charlie Battery, 2nd Battalion, 142nd Field Artillery Brigade, fires a round during a mission at the Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center near Barling ...

The Paladin, produced in a quantity of 950 units, was introduced into service in the last decade of the 20th century and has become the cornerstone of American tube artillery. In parallel with the ...

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The M109A6 Paladin isn't, strictly speaking, a tank. Instead, it's a self-propelled howitzer, a weapons system twinned with a Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle. Running on treads ...

BAE successfully tested a new hyper-long range artillery round in one of the Army ... the testing announced this week was fired from the Paladin’s shorter, 39-caliber barrel.

[Related: The US’s latest assist to Ukraine: Rocket launchers with a 43-mile range] For the Extended Range Cannon Artillery, the Army’s latest iteration of the Paladin-derived design ...

In comparison, the core of the US Army's tube artillery consists of the M109A7 Paladin howitzers, which are comprehensive modernizations of the M109 howitzers introduced into service in the 1960s.

only the Extended Range Cannon Artillery program missed that goal. The ERCA system uses a service-developed, 58-caliber gun tube mounted on the chassis of a BAE Systems-made Paladin Integrated ...