The Army’s new Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) has now hit a record 43 miles. That’s the longest verified distance for a howitzer. But a new Russian howitzer might be able to shoot just as far, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Army has long known that it has artillery shortcomings that need to be addressed. As it readies for possible future ...

The Army is fast-tracking an emerging program to engineer a longer-range artillery cannon able to out range enemy ground forces by hitting targets at more than twice the distance of existing artillery ...

ERCA is one of several current initiatives intended to address this. Accordingly, the Army is now prototyping artillery weapons with a larger caliber tube and new grooves to hang weights for gravity ...

The US Army has long known that it has artillery shortcomings that need to be addressed. As it readies for possible future large-scale combat operations, the Army is looking to plug these gaps. A ...