Part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, was a 15-kiloton test fired from a 280-mm cannon on May 25, 1953 at the Nevada Proving Grounds. 72 years ago the U.S. Army carried out its first and only nuclear ...

A few issues have been reported with some of the artillery shells received through the Czech initiative, according to German publication Handelsblatt, which cited a letter from Kyiv to Prague. Czechia ...

The US military's Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois announced that since 2022, the service has nearly quadrupled its monthly production of the 155mm M795 projectile artillery. The ongoing war in Ukraine ...

Indian Institute of Technology Madras researchers have achieved a world first with ramjet-powered artillery shells. This ...

GRANTSVILLE – A community in Grantsville was put on alert Sunday when a live World War II-era artillery shell was discovered on a family's property. The discovery was made around 5 p.m. at the ...

March 6, 2025: While drones now cause most of the casualties in Ukraine, there is still some use for towed and self-propelled 155mm artillery. One reason is that artillery can quickly destroy armored ...

A Pennsylvania ammunition plant that makes a key artillery shell in Ukraine’s fight against Russia has managed to boost production by 50% to meet surging demand, with more capacity set to come on line ...

General Atomics has effectively and cheaply transformed traditional artillery shells into guided missiles, vastly expanding the range and utility of modern cannons. When one thinks of “long-range ...

The project, initiated in 2020 in collaboration with the Indian Army, has progressed through multiple stages of testing, with ...

The nuclear era was ushered in by the United States on July 16, 1945 with the successful test of a nuclear bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The military would drop the first nuclear weapons in less ...

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 stretch of ...

72 years ago the U.S. Army carried out its first and only nuclear artillery test. The military actually made an atomic artillery shell, loaded it into a 280mm cannon and fired it. And it worked. Task ...