Artillery has been one of the most heavily used weapons by both Russia and Ukraine. The intensity of its use has added urgency to the US military's efforts to update its artillery. As part of that ...

Ukraine's commander-in-chief posted a Facebook video showing the effects of the M982 Excalibur. Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny praised the maximum accuracy of the precision-guided shells. The US has supplied ...

November 11, 2024: One of the more useful weapons NATO sent to Ukraine were about 200 M777 155mm towed howitzers supplied by the United States, Canada and Australia. NATO nations sent Ukraine over 600 ...

The GPS guided mortar shells are popular with the troops as are the earlier GPS guided 155mm artillery shells, 227mm rockets and JDAM bombs. Excalibur, the first effective and widely used GPS guided ...

U.S. soldiers and Marines have fired Raytheon’s Excalibur guided artillery shell more than 1,000 times in land combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems is vying to ...

The U.S. Army has procured more 155mm Excalibur projectiles from Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX (NYSE: RTX), under a $276.5 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract.

In the 14 months since Russia widened its war on Ukraine, the Ukrainian army has become adept at firing laser- and GPS-guided artillery shells. These precision munitions make it possible for Ukrainian ...

The war in Ukraine has highlighted both the value of precision-guided artillery rounds and how such munitions can be foiled by jamming navigational technologies such as GPS. But the US Army is moving ...

Ukraine's top general Valeriy Zaluzhny shared a video showing the effectiveness of US-provided M982 Excalibur shells against Russian forces. In the video, which was posted to Zaluzhny's Facebook page, ...