The cannon itself has 45 degrees of lateral ... in 1968 when a lightweight replacement was sought for the WWII era M114 155mm howitzer. A testbed prototype was developed and constructed at the ...

How did a WWII-era weapon outlast many modern artillery systems? The M1 Howitzer was built to dominate battlefields, and even today, it serves a purpose. But why? Is it still effective, or just a ...

The footage shows a damaged 122-mm M-30 howitzer, a weapon originally developed in the 1930s and extensively used by the Soviet army during World War II ... other 122-mm artillery systems makes ...

The howitzer (its name is derived from ... which is what they called World War II, was the massive artillery barrage,” says Scott Boston, a senior defense analyst at the Rand Corporation and ...

The mobility of a howitzer — its capacity ... trucks could more swiftly tow cannon around the battlefield, though the guns still required time to set up. World War II, however, saw the debut ...

WASHINGTON: The 155mm howitzer round is one of the most requested artillery munitions of the ... the M1, for World War II. After the war, the new NATO alliance adopted the 155mm as its artillery ...

After protecting skiers and the Town of Alta from avalanches for 75 years, Alta Ski Area’s howitzer has been silenced ... s 10th Mountain Division in World War II. (Another avalanche tactic ...

The AS-90 self-propelled howitzer, donated by the United Kingdom ... In the early days of World War II, the German blitzkrieg across Europe demonstrated a need for howitzers placed on trucks ...