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U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, reload an M777 lightweight 155mm howitzer during a rehearsal for the 250th Amphibious Capabilities Demonstration at Red Beach combat town, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Oct. 17, 2025. The 250th Amphibious Capabilities Demonstration at Camp Pendleton marks the Marine Corps’ 250th birthday and America’s Semiquincentennial. The live-fire event highlights the Navy-Marine Corps team’s ability to integrate across air, land, and sea, showcasing the Corps’ enduring role as America’s force in-readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Aaron S. Patterson)

Marines fired artillery over freeway without warning during rehearsal

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Oct 26, 2025

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Dashawn M. Rudesill, a cannoneer with 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, fires an M777 lightweight 155mm howitzer during a rehearsal for the 250th Amphibious Capabilities Demonstration at Red Beach combat town, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Oct. 17, 2025. The 250th Amphibious Capabilities Demonstration at Camp Pendleton marks the Marine Corps’ 250th birthday and America’s Semiquincentennial. The live-fire event highlights the Navy-Marine Corps team’s ability to integrate across air, land, and sea, showcasing the Corps’ enduring role as America’s force in-readiness. Rudesill is a native of Rushville, Illinois. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Aaron S. Patterson)

Marine artillery shell detonates over freeway during Camp Pendleton event

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Oct 19, 2025

A GMARS systems fires a GMLRS at White Sands Missile Range on August 4th, 2025.

Meet GMARS, NATO’s next big rocket artillery system

Posted on Aug 19, 2025

U.S. Army paratroopers operate and analyze a first-person view (FPV) drone in-flight April 27, 2025. Photo by Sgt. Mariah Y. Gonzalez

‘Brutality over precision’ — What the Army is learning from Russia in Ukraine

Posted on Jul 28, 2025

A M109 Paladin on a trailer that is stuck on railroad tracks bucks from a direct hit from a freight train.

A train plowed into a M109 Paladin in transport. The Paladin mostly survived

By Joshua Skovlund, Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Sep 15, 2024

Combat engineers from the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division blast through a concrete wall during demolition training at Curry Demo July 17.

Military to start cognitive tests for troops exposed to artillery, gunfire and explosions

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Aug 12, 2024

Troops shooting artillery with rounds in the foreground.

Army says supplying Ukraine, Israel with artillery will cost $3 billion

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Nov 8, 2023

A Marine helicopter carries M777 artillery

A joke about firing artillery at ‘water’ highlights shifting Pacific strategy

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Oct 16, 2023

Soldiers firing artillery rounds

Ukraine artillery production will pay off during Israel support, US officials say

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Oct 9, 2023

Artillery shells

Army ramping up production of 155mm artillery shells next year

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Aug 7, 2023

Military buying more missiles and other weapons to fight China, Russia

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Mar 14, 2023

How would US troops fight a numerically superior enemy today?

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Feb 10, 2023

North Korea is developing a HIMARS for nuclear missiles

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Jan 4, 2023

Tanks for Ukraine

Ukraine is using its old tanks as artillery amid trench warfare in Bakhmut

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Jan 1, 2023

Russian artillery

Why Russia cannot produce enough munitions to keep pace with combat in Ukraine

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Dec 15, 2022

High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems

Russia hasn’t killed any US-supplied HIMARS in Ukraine, according to a senior defense official

By Max Hauptman

Posted on Nov 7, 2022