Ukraine received a total of twenty-seven of these vaunted howitzers from Germany, the Netherlands ... mostly as replacements for the American-made M109 (a howitzer design that dates back to ...

The widely used M109 carries a 155-mm howitzer and is the principal self ... spade that is manually lowered to the ground before firing. They are normally deployed only when firing top charges.

As a result, the name M109 could refer to both an older M109A2 howitzer retrieved from storage and the modern M109A6 Paladin system, which, together with its updated version, the M109A7, forms the ...

A few meters away, Korea's Hanwha Aerospace is showing the latest version of its K9 Thunder self-propelled howitzer fitted with a Korean engine for the first time. Earlier models had German engines ..