Artillery has quietly entered a new era in which a single cannon shell can now reach farther than many battlefield missiles. The latest generation of 155mm projectiles is smashing range records, ...

A British–Polish joint munitions venture is expected to produce as many as 130,000 shells per year for the Polish Army.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Army has renewed interest in new longer-range artillery shells, such as ramjet-powered types, following its axing of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Army is focused on acquiring new longer-range artillery shells. It previously canceled both an extended-range artillery ...

On today’s battlefields, artillery remains the king of combat. More than seventy percent of casualties in the war between Ukraine and Russia come from artillery fire, making shell supply a decisive ...

March 6, 2025: While drones now cause most of the casualties in Ukraine, there is still some use for towed and self-propelled 155mm artillery. One reason is that artillery can quickly destroy armored ...

SALT LAKE CITY — An artillery shell discovered underground at a Salt Lake City rail yard prompted a bomb squad response Tuesday afternoon. The Utah National Guard said an excavator working at the Salt ...

General Atomics has effectively and cheaply transformed traditional artillery shells into guided missiles, vastly expanding the range and utility of modern cannons. When one thinks of “long-range ...

The US Marine Corps is no stranger to firing live ordnance as part of training, but it had been years — more than 70, according to one US official — since Marines had fired artillery over a stretch of ...

A fisherman pulled an unexploded, decades-old artillery shell from the Passaic River in Bergen County on Thursday, according to Lyndhurst police. The shell was extracted around noon from the water ...

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