Seven-ton trucks are used to move the M777s, enabling artillery units to move faster between positions. A must for equipment in an expeditionary force, the howitzer is also highly deployable ...

Executions continued to be carried out publicly in the 18th century, mostly outside Newgate Prison in London. After 1783, a swifter method of execution was used, with the removal of a platform ...

For example, the import duty on tea raised its price by around 70 per cent by the middle of the 18th century. Smuggling was usually organised by gangs, who were funded by investors or venturers.

Throughout the 18th century, France faced a mounting economic crisis. A rapidly growing population had outpaced the food supply. A severe winter in 1788 resulted in famine and widespread ...

Joint Base Lewis-McChord is conducting day and nighttime artillery, demolition and mortar training from now until 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. JBLM publishes announcements of its late-night or large ...

As you approach New Haven, on the right you’ll pass “Composition in Black and Brown,” a billboard by the artist Ken Gonzales-Day collaging his photographs of 18th-century marble busts from ...

And as late as the 18th century, the French philosopher Montesquieu wrote that any man who was in love with his wife was probably too dull to be loved by another woman. When did romance enter the ...

Artillery shells are inspected in the production shop at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, April 2023. (Hannah Beier/Getty Images) The U.S. Army has started diversifying its supplier base for ...

The major artillery systems include howitzers, mortars, and rocket artilleries. Artillery systems allow the armed forces to neutralize or destroy any target during any combat or fire operations.

TASS/. Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian motorized artillery gun and a mortar in the Kherson area over the past day, a spokesman for the regional emergency services reported on Tuesday.

Yesterday we got the first big Escape From Tarkov patch of the current wipe, and the biggest new addition was mortars that fall from the sky and kill you almost instantly. Unsurprisingly ...