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 ...

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 ...

April 15, 2011: Iraq is buying several American FireFinder artillery spotting radar systems. Some Iraqi troops have already undergone training on U.S. FireFinders based in Iraq. While the Americans ...

The killings of Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in Haditha in 2005 and by Blackwater security personnel in Baghdad in 2007 both followed IED attacks. “The IED is the enemy’s artillery system ...

placing it well beyond the reach of enemy artillery, giving the Iranian military an advantage over the otherwise more advanced Iraqi Army. Interestingly, as part of their close association ...

look over a pile of Iraqi artillery shells, bombs and missiles being set up for demolition. The Army hired four civilian contractors to collect, store and begin destroying about 600,000 tons of ...

The Army relied heavily on the MLRS because Iraqi artillery had a longer range than the regular U.S. artillery. The only available warhead for the MLRS, however, contained submunitions.

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Ian Welch was on his first combat tour in Iraq, waiting to storm across the Diyala Bridge and seize Baghdad, when an artillery round exploded behind him--changing his life forever.