FORT CARSON, Colo. — The sharp crack of artillery echoed across the range, rolling over the Colorado foothills like distant thunder. A plume of smoke and dust marked the blast as the round roared ...
With a deafening crack, Vietnam veteran E. Paige Lanier pulled the lanyard on an M777 howitzer, sending a shell soaring over the prairie at Fort Carson’s vast training grounds south of Colorado ...
Marines didn’t give any prior warning before firing more than two dozen artillery rounds over a busy freeway in a rehearsal for last weekend’s Marine Corps birthday celebration at Camp Pendleton.
A controlled artillery round that can hit targets from 120 kilometers away in GPS-denied environments was successfully tested at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. General Atomics Electromagnetic ...