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 Wednesday it ...

YORK, Penn., Oct. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BAE Systems (LSE: BA) successfully fired 155 millimeter projectiles from a M109 Self-Propelled Howitzer modified with the Rheinmetall L52 155mm, 52-caliber ...

The U.S. Army has renewed interest in new longer-range artillery shells, such as ramjet-powered types, following its axing of plans to buy a next-generation tracked self-propelled 155mm howitzer ...

Extended Range Cannon Artillery, or ERCA, was canceled in 2024. The Army is now looking for more readily available self-propelled howitzer options to meet extended range requirements, mobility and the ...

YORK, Pa., March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- BAE Systems (BAESY) (LON: BA) has been awarded a contract valued up to $318 million from the U.S. Army to perform technical and sustainment support services ...

The M109 breed of self-propelled guns is one of the most fearsome the world has ever known. Available to fight battles ever since the early 1960s, it took part in the planet's most high-profile ...

The armored vehicle that dropped off a tractor-trailer and partially shut down I-10 was reportedly a M109 Howitzer like the one pictured here. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Stephencdickson A ...

If the Army doesn’t field a modern, networked, long-range, survivable self-propelled howitzer soon, it risks being totally overmatched by its peer adversaries in the next great power war. Back in ...

A truck carrying an M109 howitzer in Goose Creek, South Carolina, was struck by a CSX freight train Thursday. No one was injured in the collision, the Goose Creek Police Department said in a Facebook ...