"How the U.S. campaign in Iraq has escalated with a..." Topic

… new weapon: rocket artillery.

"Last week, close watchers of the many-sided war in Iraq and Syria learned from an apparently inadvertent Russian state television disclosure that Russia has upped the ante in its eight-week-old war in Syria, apparently adding ground-based artillery to the array of attack jets, strategic bombers, and helicopter gunships that have been pounding Islamic State terrorists and U.S.-backed rebels alike in the country.

Without fanfare, the U.S.-led coalition has escalated its involvement in the conflict in a similar way in recent weeks, adding artillery raids of its own to the steady thrum of air strikes against the Islamic State. In the U.S. case, the weapons involved are long-range, satellite-guided rockets, not howitzers, and the targets are in Iraq, not Syria…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Rockets work too !

That top pic in the link shows a vehicle from my old unit, the 1/182nd FA. Except when I was with them it had tracked MLRS launchers not the new wheeled vehicles.

Small world.

So yes, at one point I was Blackhorse MLRS crewman. It was a long career.

That is a neat coincidence !