US - M119 105mm Howitzer Airborne Deployment

 Source: Armed Forces Archives

Airborne‬ Artillery Drop & M119A3 Howitzer 105mm Cannon In Action

US - M119 Light Gun - Night Firing

U.S. M119 Field Gun Artillery | 105mm High Explosive - Night Fire Mission  

Source: Matsimus

Artillerymen from B Battery, 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division Artillery conduct Operation Bull Wings Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (EDRE) at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, Jan. 21, 2021. 

The EDRE is a no-notice, rapid-deployment exercise designed to test a unit's ability to alert, marshal, and deploy forces and equipment to an emergency disaster or for contingency operations.

US - M119 Light Gun

 Source: XVIII Airborne Corps

American airborne artillery firing M119 105 mm Light Gun 

US - L118 Light Gun Air Mobile

 Source: airailimages

L118 Light Gun Air Mobile

Artillery sling-loaded beneath UH-60 Blackhawks: Soldiers from Alpha Company, 3-7 Field Artillery, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, execute air assault operations March 25, 2020, at Pho Lym Yai, Thailand, as part of the Hanuman Guardian exercise, a joint U.S.-Thai effort. 

UK - Royal Artillery

 

Source: Military Motivations

UK Royal Artillery conducting fire missions with 105mm L118 Light Gun and 155mm AS90 SP.

UK - Royal School of Artillery

UNITED KINGDOM 

ROYAL SCHOOL OF ARTILLERY

UK - L118 Light Gun

  

Source: Matsimus

The L118 Light Gun is a 105 mm towed howitzer. It was originally produced for the British Army in the 1970s and has been widely exported since, including to the United States, where a modified version is known as the "M119 howitzer". The versatile 105mm light gun is used by the parachute and commando field artillery regiments of the British Army. The light gun can be towed by a medium-weight vehicle or carried around the battlefield underslung by a Chinook helicopter. Royal Artillery L118 light guns are fitted with an automatic pointing system (APS), which enables the gun to be unlimbered and in action in 30 seconds. APS is based on an inertial navigation system, operated via a touch screen, it replaces the traditional dial sight. The light gun entered service with the British Army in 1976. The new weapon was heavier than its predecessor, but new and more capable helicopters such as the Puma and Westland Sea King, which could carry the new weapon, were entering service at the same time. A new vehicle, the Land Rover 101 Forward Control ("Land Rover, one-ton"), was designed as the prime mover in the field for the light gun (and the Rapier air-defence missile launcher). Since the end of the 1990s, the British Army has used Pinzgauer ATVs as their gun tractors. In Arctic service, and elsewhere, the gun is towed by the Hägglunds Bv 206 and is fitted with skis when over snow. In 1982, the light gun saw use in the Falklands War. Five batteries (30 guns) were deployed to the Falkland Islands. During the final phases of the battles around Port Stanley, these guns were firing up to 400 rounds per gun a day, mostly at "charge super", the most powerful propellant charge for which they were designed. They were a significant factor in the British victory. Since then, British forces have used the light gun in combat in the Balkans, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan.

UK - Military Helicopters Perform Gun Lift Display On Salisbury Plain

US - Airborne Drop and Live Fire 105 mm

U.S. Airborne elements of the 25th Infantry Division conduct a heavy-drop of paratroopers and 105mm howitzers followed by a live-fire exercise. The operation was part of Exercise Spartan Valkyrie at Malemute Drop Zone on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. Filmed on March 20, 2015. Units - Spartan Steel Battalion, 377th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team

US - Air Assault Artillery

U.S. Army Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division conduct an air assault with field artillery dropped from Black Hawk helicopters from the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade. Sling load operations at Fort Campbell, KY with the M119 howitzer, a lightweight British 105mm howitzer used by the United States Army.

UK - Air Assault Artillery

 

Soldiers of 7 Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery (7 PARA RHA) – aka ‘The Airborne Gunners’ practising their air assault skills on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.

Troops deploying into the field, by RAF Chinook helicopter, with their 105mm Light Guns, Pinzgauer vehicles and ammunition before conducting fire missions.

NATO - Exercise Dynamic Front 18

NATO Artillery In Germany - Exercise Dynamic Front 18

France, United Kingdom, Germany, and United States artillery units fire various artillery systems during Exercise Dynamic Front 18 at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany in March 2018. Dynamic Front is an annual exercise focused on the interoperability of U.S. Army, joint service and allied nation artillery units in a multinational environment for field artillery gun crews.

UK - L118 Light Gun

Royal School of Artillery

Field regiments of the Royal Artillery are equipped with the versatile 105 mm light gun, including the parachute and commando artillery regiments. The light gun can be towed by a medium-weight vehicle or carried around the battlefield underslung by a Chinook helicopter. Royal Artillery L118 light guns are fitted with an automatic pointing system (APS), which enables the gun to be unlimbered and in action in 30 seconds. APS is based on an inertial navigation system, operated via a touch screen, it replaces the traditional dial sight.