USA - M109A6 Paladins

US Army Military

 M109A6 Paladins Artillery Fires in Action, Paladin M109A6 is a cannon artillery gadget developed by the Ground System Division of United Defense LP (now BAE Systems Land and Armaments) and manufactured at the Paladin Production Operation centre at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Paladin was first fielded in 1994 and is operational with the United States Army and the Israeli Army, and has been selected by using the Kuwait and Taiwan.

In June 1999, the US Army received the closing of 950 Paladin M109A6 ordered. Seven systems have been ordered in July 2000 for the US Army National Guard and a further 18 systems in January 2002.

Paladin artillery gadget operation
The Paladin artillery system is operated with the aid of a crew of four, a commander, driver, gunner and loader. Paladin is able to operate independently with no external technical assistance. The crew are able to acquire mission facts with the aid of a impervious voice and digital communications system, compute the firing data, routinely unencumber the cannon from the travel lock, factor the cannon and fire, and go to a new area barring external technical assistance. Paladin M109A6 fires the first round from the move in beneath 60 seconds. The ‘shoot and scoot’ capability protects the crew from the counterbattery fire.

Paladin was once used in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March / April 2003 and in the continuing operations in Iraq, such as Operation Al Fajr in Fallujah in November 2004.

BAE Systems Land and Armaments supplied 219 modification kits for US Army Paladins which enable the use of the modular artillery cost machine (MACS) and the 155mm precision-guided extended-range XM92 Excalibur projectile being developed by using Raytheon and Bofors Defense of Sweden (a BAE Systems subsidiary). Deliveries began in 2005.