Early variants had a short, 23-caliber barrel. Later versions, including the M109A6 Paladin, have a 39-caliber barrel. The M109 has a crew of six: commander, gunner, driver and three ammunition ...

Consequently, the name M109 can refer to an older M109A2 howitzer taken from storage and the modern M109A6 Paladin system, which, along with its evolved version M109A7, forms the backbone of ...

MOSCOW, July 18. /TASS/. Russian troops destroyed a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system of the Ukrainian army by a Lancet loitering munition in the Kherson area, Russia’s ...

MOSCOW, January 20. /TASS/. Russian forces destroyed a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system and also D-30 and Msta-B howitzers in the Kherson area over the past day during the ...

Among the latest additions are U.S.-made M109 self-propelled howitzers ... it has been updated into multiple variants, including the modern M109A6 Paladin and M109A7 models still in service ...

But on my last day at the post, as I was hanging out with a bunch of artillerymen waiting to see an M109 Paladin test fire, one of the creatures appeared before us.