DefenceTalkThe United States has sent a Marine Corps artillery battery into Syria to help defeat the Islamic State group in Raqa, the capital of their supposed caliphate, a US official said. The official said troops from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit had deployed a battery of 155mm Howitzers to an outpost in Syria. The Marines […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-marines-deploy-artillery-battery-to-syria-69428/

DefenceTalkThe Army has closed its initial solicitation phase for designs to create a next generation precision mortar that will allow Soldiers to put their rounds on target with extreme accuracy. The 120 mm high explosive guided mortar, or HEGM program, is intended to replace the current precision-guided HE mortar, the accelerated precision mortar initiative or […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-developing-laser-guided-precision-mortar-69383/

DefenceTalkNexter has been a longstanding partner supporting the modernization of the TNI (Tentara Nasional Indonesia) since entering into an initial contract in 2012 to supply 36 CAESAR artillery systems. Today at the IDEX 2017 trade show, Nexter is proud to announce the signing of a new contract to supply a further 18 CAESAR systems to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/indonesia-orders-additional-caesar-artillery-systems-69200/

DefenceTalkEstonia has said that it will join Finland to purchase heavy artillery from South Korea. Finland is expected to spend at least 100 million euros in the joint deal. Finnish Defence Forces have been working on a major procurement deal involving self-propelled howitzer artillery for some years now. The military wants to replace currently-used Soviet-built […]https://www.defencetalk.com/estonia-to-team-up-with-finland-for-joint-arms-deal-69060/

DefenceTalkFinland is planning to acquire counter artillery radar systems in the coming years, reports the daily Helsingin Sanomat. The paper said the system would be completely new to Finnish Defence Forces. According to a report in Thursday’s Helsingin Sanomat, Finnish Defence Forces may soon get a completely new counter artillery radar system, an untried system […]https://www.defencetalk.com/finland-planning-to-buy-new-counter-artillery-system-68792/

DefenceTalkNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Un conducted a large-scale artillery drill simulating an attack on the South Korean capital and other targets, as Seoul and Tokyo on Friday unveiled fresh unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons program. The military exercise, involving multiple batteries of frontline heavy artillery units, targeted five border islands, as well […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-artillery-drill-targets-south-seoul-unveils-sanctions-68640/

DefenceTalkTurkish armed forces on Monday launched artillery strikes on separate targets of Islamic State (IS) jihadists and the Democratic Union Party (PYD) Kurdish militia in northern Syria, television reports said. Turkish army howitzers stationed inside Turkey fired on IS targets in the town of Jarablus and PYD targets around the area of Manbij, the CNN-Turk […]https://www.defencetalk.com/turkey-launches-artillery-strikes-on-is-kurdish-pyd-in-north-syria-tv-68032/

DefenceTalkMoscow and New Delhi have concluded an agreement to develop a new self-propelled gun (SPG) intended for Indian domestic market. The CEO of Uralvagonzavod, Oleg Siyenko and the Director Executive of Bharat Forge (a subsidiary of the Kalyani Group), Amid Kalyani signed the related Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the presence of Russia’s Minister for […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-india-to-develop-new-self-propelled-gun-spg-67854/

DefenceTalkThe Defence Ministry today approved the much-delayed purchase of 145 Ultralight howitzers, worth about Rs 5,000 crore, from the US and also the bulk production of 18 Dhanush artillery guns, the first acquisition of such weapon systems by the Army in three decades since the Bofors scandal. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence […]https://www.defencetalk.com/india-to-buy-145-m777-howitzers-67715/

DefenceTalkLess than six miles from the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea, the 30 U.S. and South Korean heavy artillery vehicles lined up, May 10, were the largest coordinated artillery fires many had seen. Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, participated in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-south-korean-artillery-coordinate-fires-near-dmz-67493/