The widely used M109 carries a 155-mm howitzer and is the principal self-propelled artillery support for U.S. Army divisions. It is a large tracked vehicle with a fully traversable turret and ...

Discovered in 1781 by Pierre Méchain, M109 is the most distant Messier object, located a whopping 83.5 million light-years away.

The M109 was so thoroughly debugged by 2020 that, in designing the M1299, the Pentagon simply asked for the M777 stationary howitzer, which had recently doubled its range through the use of rocket ...

The M109 is essentially a howitzer, meaning a type of gun meant to fire shells high and slow.It can shoot out its barrel a variety of projectiles, from high-explosive ones to the GPS-guided ...

BAE Systems has secured a five-year, $318 million contract to help the U.S. Army sustain its fleet of self-propelled howitzers and carrier, ammunition, tracked vehicles.. The company said ...

Throughout the month of October and into November, Soldiers were hard at work at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., running a potential vehicle upgrade, the M109 Paladin Integrated Management, through ...

An M109 Paladin, on a trailer, the moment it was hit by a train on Sept. 12, 2024. (Screenshot via Twitter) If you have ever wondered what it would look like if a freight train crashed into an ...

A nearly mile-long train carried M1 Abrams tanks, M2 Bradley vehicles, M109 Paladins and Strykers about 1,300 miles from Texas to the capital for the parade. The parade will include about 6,600 ...