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  • Moments later, a 155-mm artillery shell landed inside the top hatch of the vehicle behind him.

    For Wounded Vet, Love Pierces the Fog of War Michael M. Phillips 2012

  • But is it Hezbollah that is using U. S.-built F-16s, with precision-guided bombs and 155-mm artillery pieces to wreak death and devastation on Lebanon?

    Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006

  • Tirana is now home to elements of the 82d Airborne, equipped with 15 M1A1 battle tanks and 14 Bradley fighting vehicles to provide cover for Apaches, 20 TOW missile batteries and 18 Javelin missile batteries, 8 155-mm howitzers, 6 multiple-rocket-launching systems, 8 Bradley Stinger fighting vehicles, and enough piss and vinegar to satisfy a Patton.

    Nato's War Party 2008

  • Dwyer's base was rocked, every minute or so all day, by the terrifying shock of its line of 155-mm howitzers firing their village-destroying shells over the hills and into the Korengal Valley Commander Dan Dwyer of the U.S.

    Channeling Garth Turner 2008

  • In fact, the CF backgrounder on the M777's states that "The high-tech M777 gun is capable of firing a 155-mm shell at a rate of two to five rounds per minute while achieving high levels of accuracy with targets up to 30 km away."

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • The Defence Department is now negotiating with BAE Systems Inc. to buy six more of the 155-mm artillery pieces in the short-term and possibly an additional 15 over the long-term, said one source.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • According to Raytheon's pamphlet on the Excalibur, the "GPS-guided projectile provides accurate, first round fire-for-effect capability to all current and future 155-mm howitzers."

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • Most heavy vehicles, the entire twelve-gun 155-mm heavy artillery battalion and much of the ammunition had to be left behind.

    The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

  • Most heavy vehicles, the entire twelve-gun 155-mm heavy artillery battalion and much of the ammunition had to be left behind.

    The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

  • Most heavy vehicles, the entire twelve-gun 155-mm heavy artillery battalion and much of the ammunition had to be left behind.

    The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

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