InsideDefense.com reports today on the “first combat firing of a 155 mm precision artillery shell in Iraq.” The shell, the XM982 Excalibur, was fired at an al Qaeda safe house earlier this month: ...

Raytheons innovative satellite-guided 155mm artillery shell was used in operations in Iraq last weekend to kill a top local al Qaeda leader south of Baghdad. Bloomberg News Tony Capaccio reports a ...

IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, are a sad fact of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, so you’ll see the influence of these deadly weapons in this list of the US Army‘s top inventions for 2007. Every ...

WASHINGTON — A Raytheon-made satellite-guided artillery shell — the first weapon of its kind — killed a top al-Qaida leader in Iraq, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The firing of two new 155mm ...

As artillery projectiles go, the army is erring towards the costly end of the spectrum. Christopher Jay looks at the long-term tactical advantages. As decision time approaches on a new armoured ...

Troops with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division have become the first American unit to fire in combat a new artillery round with extended range accuracy, military officials said Friday.

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. - Leadership for the office of the Product Manager for Excalibur changed hands here July 7. Lt. Col. Joseph Minus handed over responsibility to Lt. Col. Michael Milner during a ...

M/A-COM (Lowell, MA) reports that it has signed an initial development contract with Raytheon Missiles Systems to develop tactical telemetry modules (TTMs) for the XM982 “Excalibur” projectile program ...