US Army increases efforts to plug capability gaps in self-propelled artillery inventory
The branch plans to invest more than $400 million in the PIM programme in FY2025. (Photo: US Army)
The service has been working on the modernisation of its in-service systems and planning the acquisition of advanced howitzers.
The US Army has been seeking ways to plug capability gaps in its self-propelled artillery inventory as the war in Ukraine has been showing the crucial role this type of capability will have on tomorrow’s battlefield.
In order to be better equipped for a protracted war, the service planned a more than US$500 million investment to procure Paladin Integrated Management (PIM) platforms and improve its in-service systems over FY2025. It also requested $8 million to start the Next Generation Howitzer (NGH) programme.
The branch’s budget justification papers stated that the NGH would be a “highly mobile, survivable, versatile, transportable,
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