But in the military context, more specifically the arena of artillery, the so-called “King of Battle,” “triple-7” has a far more deadly meaning, namely the British-made M777 155mm (6.1 in ...
And like Pittsburgh, Sheffield has reinvented itself. While it continues to produce cutlery, Sheffield is also where the UK's M777 Howitzer will soon be manufactured, as BAE Systems announced this ...
The M777 Lightweight 155mm howitzer provides timely, accurate and continuous firepower in support of Marine and Army infantry forces and replaces the M198 towed Howitzer. In 2005, the Army and ...
The M777 was designed by the now-defunct Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering between 1987 and 2003 and officially debuted in 2005 (smack dab in the middle of the Global War on Terror).
three artillery platoons of US-made howitzers M777 in the areas of Velykaya Kostromka in the Dnipropetrovsk Region; Dneprovskoye and Yavkino in the Nikolayev Region; and a platoon of HIMARS ...
MOSCOW, December 26. /TASS/. Russian troops destroyed a US-made M777 howitzer used by the Ukrainian military to shell Donetsk residential areas, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor ...
FORT BLISS, Texas - US Marines fired so many M-777 howitzer rounds in support of Syrian Democratic Forces, which eventually ousted ISIS from Raqqa, that they burned out two barrels. "They fired ...
After seeing a decade of heavy combat in two major wars, the lightweight M777 howitzer continues to be an integral piece of the the US military's artillery strategy. With the capacity to fire up ...
On Friday the company said the facility will begin making M777 towed howitzers next year, creating 50 skilled jobs locally. The new building was built by a third party and has been leased by BAE ...