PARIS — French artillery engineers had a simple idea: Take a big gun, mount it on a truck, and you’ve got self-propelled artillery at relatively little cost. The wheeled guns have proved so effective ...
French soldiers conduct a live-fire exercise with a Caesar self-propelled howitzer outside of Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, in 2009. (Staff Sgt. Teddy Wade/U.S. Army) SANTIAGO, Chile — Colombia has ...
Oleksii Reznikov, the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, has reported that three types of 155-mm artillery - the M777 howitzer, FH70 howitzer, and Caesar self-propelled howitzer - are already being used ...
Ukraine on Friday announced it had recently received Caesar howitzers from Denmark and the artillery systems were already in use. Ukraine looks to bolster its military capabilities with the arrival of ...
A 6x6 truck carrying a 155mm cannon might look unusual, but the French CAESAR system is built for speed and striking power.
'It's a fast, efficient, accurate and very easy to use weapon,' said one Ukrainian soldier - Copyright AFP Noel Celis 'It's a fast, efficient, accurate and very easy ...
Feb. 20 (UPI) --Indonesia is procuring additional CAESAR wheeled self-propelled howitzer systems from Nexter of France. The 18-system order, announced Monday at the Idex 2017 trade show, follows a ...
Nexter is joining the field vying to win the US Army’s towed howitzer replacement competition, and is proposing its CAmionÉquipé d’un Système d’ARtillerie (CAESAR) truck-mounted 155 mm artillery ...
A Ukrainian artillery unit in the Donbas region has been quickly getting up to speed with the latest long-range artillery import, the French Caesar howitzer. The self-propelled 155mm gun can hit ...
July 3, 2024: Ukraine has developed its own version of the French Caesar truck-mounted 155mm howitzer. The Ukrainian version is called the 2S22 Bogdana. This is a 28 ton, six-wheel truck armed with a ...
JERUSALEM — Israeli defense company Elbit Systems said it won several deals in Europe this month, including a $119 million sale of ATMOS truck-mounted howitzers and a $133 million contract for PULS ...
A 55th Artillery Brigade Caesar. For 20 days now, Russian brigades have been trying—and mostly failing—to advance north and south of Avdiivka, a Ukrainian stronghold just northwest of Donetsk in ...