Now we’ve got artillery on the ground: The Marine killed in an ISIS rocket attack in Iraq on Saturday was at the first American firebase that had only become operational a few days earlier CNN ...

With the capacity to fire up to five 155mm rounds a minute, the M777 provides artillery units ... to use by the US Army and Marines — in Afghanistan in 2007, and Iraq in 2008.

The sole U.S.-government-owned and operated arsenal has been unable to meet the “unprecedented demand” of more than 30 new barrels per month.

This situation is particularly intriguing because Iraq had acquired the 2S1 Gvozdika and 2S3 Akatsiya artillery systems from the USSR. These systems are extensively used in the ongoing war in ...

Impact Link The US Navy announced plans to name a new amphibious warship after 1st Lieutenant Travis Manion, a post-9/11 Marine killed in combat in Iraq. The USS Travis Manion, an amphibious ...

SHURA, Iraq — State-sanctioned Shiite militias ... Other Iraqi forces aided by U.S.-led airstrikes and heavy artillery meanwhile drove IS from the town of Shura, south of Mosul, where the ...

Iraq, Jan. 17, 2004: Members of the U.S. Army’s Captured Enemy Ammunition Operations and contractors from EOD Technology Inc., based in Knoxville, Tenn. look over a pile of Iraqi artillery ...