Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PARIS — French artillery engineers had a simple idea: Take a big gun, mount it on a truck, and you’ve got self-propelled artillery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Danish Army presents its Caesar howitzer in Oksboel, Denmark, on Nov. 12, 2021. (Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty ...

The French-built CAESAR self-propelled howitzer has become one of Ukraine’s key artillery systems since its arrival in 2022.

In April 2022, two months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, France sent its most advanced self-propelled howitzers to aid Ukraine's defense: the CAESAR system. As of today, up to 50 ...

July 3, 2024: Ukraine has developed its own version of the French Caesar truck-mounted 155mm howitzer. The Ukrainian version is called the 2S22 Bogdana. This is a 28 ton, six-wheel truck armed with a ...

A 55th Artillery Brigade Caesar. For 20 days now, Russian brigades have been trying—and mostly failing—to advance north and south of Avdiivka, a Ukrainian stronghold just northwest of Donetsk in ...

Artillery has always played a major role in determining how wars are fought, and that remains true today.

According to Nicolas Chamussy, the company "prefers to cooperate with local partners whose skills it has already been able to assess" PARIS, June 19. /TASS/. The French division of the KNDS concern ...

The Ukrainian Army has significantly enhanced its firepower by putting into operation 120 self-propelled CAESAR howitzers, Western-made artillery equipment used in combat against Russian forces. The ...

The ministry uploaded a video transmitted by data-recording equipment, showing the destruction of the Ukrainian army’s artillery system MOSCOW, November 2. /TASS/. Russian forces destroyed a ...

New Capability Will Support Service Needs for Greater Range and Improved Mobility for Artillery Systems. The agreement brings together two leading defense companies with deep experience in developing ...

Explosions do not disturb residents of Draguignan, the “artillery capital of France.” But a visitor to this southeastern city is surprised that the sound of an 18-ton Caesar self-propelled howitzer ...