A Marine rocket and missile battalion with a legacy stretching back to World War II is set to deactivate in March as part of an effort to modernize the Marine Corps’ artillery. The deactivation of the ...

The 18th Field Artillery Brigade was first constituted on Oct. 1, 1943, in the U.S. Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, XVIII Corps Artillery and activated on Oct. 9, 1943, at Camp Cooke, ...

Napoleon Bonaparte: “God fights on the side of the best artillery.” My artillery friends no doubt believe God always has been on the side of those possessing superior artillery. As an infantry officer ...

(CNN) — The US Marine Corps is no stranger to firing live ordnance as part of training, but it had been years — more than 70, according to one US official — since Marines had fired artillery over a ...

Raytheon Company’s new laser-guided Excalibur S 155mm artillery round scored direct hits on a moving target in a secret, live-fire test for the Marine Corps last spring at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona ...

U.S. Marines are conducting around-the-clock artillery support for American Kurdish partners battling ISIS in its de facto capital of Raqqa. That support has become vital as Kurdish forces have hit ...

IDF SOUTHERN COMMAND FIRES CENTER, BEERSHEBA, Israel — From this new two-story command center in southern Israel, a colonel from the Israel Defense Forces' Artillery Corps is responsible for ...