PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- After a successful live-fire test of the Army’s Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) limited-capacity autoloader at Yuma Proving Ground in June 2019, the Picatinny ...

An M109 Paladin crew with 2nd Battalion, 142nd Field Artillery Brigade fires a round during a live-fire exercise during annual training. But this scene will be a relic if the Army can get autoloaders ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --Six companies were selected to prepare concepts and designs for an Extended-Range Cannon Artillery autoloader, the U.S. Army announced. The companies chosen by the Army for the program ...

Six companies have been selected to develop concepts of an autoloader system for the U.S. Army's Extended-Range Cannon Artillery program, Defense News reported Saturday. The service branch provided ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. — The U.S. Army is working on a new conventional fires strategy expected by the end of this year, according to Gen. James Rainey, who leads Army Futures Command. “We did a very ...

The US Army is scaling down an autoloader for its new Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) programme and will not meet its initial goal of having the enhanced capability ready by 2024. At the same ...

Extended-range cannon artillery will be an improvement to the latest version of the Paladin self-propelled howitzer that provides indirect fires for the brigade combat team- and division-level fight. ...

U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground conducts developmental testing of multiple facets of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery project, from artillery shells to the longer cannon tube and larger firing ...

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — A stretch of U.S. 95 north of Yuma will be closed several times Friday for 30-minute periods while a U.S. Army facility conducts artillery test firings. The closures of a 23-mile ...

August 21, 2009: The U.S. Army appears to have lost its second replacement vehicle for the half-century old M-109 self-propelled 155mm howitzer. The new XM1203 NLOS-C self-propelled 155mm howitzer has ...