The United States and South Korea conducted joint military drills this year. North Korea is also now stepping up its ammunition game. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspected the country's artillery weapon systems and attended the test firing of such weapons.

North Korea tests its multiple rocket systems

North Korea: Pyongyang's new artillery weapons system inspected by Kim Jong-un

South Korea's defense Chief is making startling claims about the nature of relations between North Korea and Russia. The defence Chief says that over the past 6 months North Korea has supplied Russia with a staggering 6,700 shipping containers of artillery shells in exchange.

Seoul Defence: Russia sending North Korea food in returns for arms

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, has pledged support for Ukraine, vowing that the country will prevail in the ongoing conflict with Russia. The commitment comes alongside the announcement by the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) of additional funding for "urgently needed artillery ammunition".

UK PM Rishi Sunak assures Ukraine’s triumph with new artillery funding

The British Army has more senior officers than heavy artillery, revealed official MoD estimates. At the end of 2021, there were 245 people serving in the army, navy, and air force with the rank of one-star general or above, according to a Freedom of Information request reported by The Times.

High-ranking officers outnumber heavy artillery in British Army: Report

In a historic first, the Indian Army commissioned five women officers to its Regiment of Artillery. The Regiment of Artillery is the second largest arm that constitutes a formidable operational arm of the Indian Army.

In historic first, women officers commissioned into Indian Army's Regiment of Artillery

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday, during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, promised to provide tanks and artillery system to Ukraine amid renewed missile attacks by Moscow targeting the Ukrainian capital and other cities.

PM Rishi Sunak promises UK will supply battle tanks, artillery to Ukraine

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea today, making it the seventh such launch by Pyongyang in recent days. Pyongyang's missile launch has raised alarm.

North Korea's seventh launch in recent days; South Korea expresses concern

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has made a fiery speech as he claimed that North Korea's nuclear deterrence is ready. He added that the South Korean President is pushing the situation to the brink of war.

North Korea threatens US with Nuclear war?

Tensions have escalated in the Korean peninsula. South Korea said that North Korea test-fired suspected artillery shots. South Korea has also said that it will maintain firm military readiness.

Tensions simmer in Korean peninsula: South Korea says North Korea test-fired suspected artillery shots

Artillery shells fired by Russian-backed separatists shrieked into this small town deep in the flatlands of eastern Ukraine, shearing branches from trees, scooping out craters, blowing up six houses and killing one Ukrainian soldier.

How a dispute over groceries led to artillery strikes in Ukraine

North Korean mechanised troops held an artillery fire competition over the weekend as part of efforts to boost the country's defence capabilities, state media reported on Sunday The drills were conducted on Saturday, state news agency KCNA said, and come as North Korea increasingly complains over what it sees as a double standard where its military activities invite international criticism when similar exercises by South Korea and the United States usually do not.

North Korean troops stage artillery fire competition

France is set to sell 52 Caesar artillery guns to the Czech Republic in a deal worth 257 million euros ($301 million) as Paris pushes for greater European defence autonomy, an Armed Forces Ministry official said on Wednesday.

In European push, France to sell artillery guns to Czech Republic

At least 13 people were killed and several wounded in two separate artillery attacks on the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Saturday, local medical sources and Turkey's government said.

Syrian hospital hit in artillery attacks on Afrin, at least 13 killed

Global spending on defence rose by four per cent in 2019, the largest growth in 10 years, led by big increases from the US and China, a study said Friday (Feb 14).

Biggest jump in world defence spending in 10 years: Study

The Howitzer artillery gun suffered a damage to its barrell after a defective high explosive shell manufactured by the Defence Ministry's Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) exploded

Indian Army's newly-acquired Howitzer damaged by faulty indigenously-built shell

Two of the 145 M-777 ultra-light howitzers, manufactured by BAE systems, arrived in India from the US today

Indian Army gets its first howitzers after nearly 30 years

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