{"id":909968,"date":"2026-04-22T00:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/909968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:36:19","slug":"how-and-why-europe-is-replenishing-tube-artillery-in-the-drone-warfare-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/909968\/","title":{"rendered":"How and why Europe is replenishing tube artillery in the drone warfare era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite other weapon systems dominating the headlines, conventional tube artillery is still used extensively by both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and is on the procurement lists of most European armies.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the fast-moving arena of modern combat operations, some things remain constant: field artillery is still the only weapon system that can provide indirect fire support to ground forces on a 24\/7 basis for 365 days a year.  <\/p>\n<p>For many years the US M109 155mm\/39cal self-propelled howitzer (SPH) was the most widely used such system in NATO, but almost all members have replaced this with new tracked or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite other weapon systems dominating the headlines, conventional tube artillery is still used extensively by both sides in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7703,2000,299,5187,332,242255,255752,657,255751],"class_list":["post-909968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-artillery","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-russia","tag-self-propelled-howitzer","tag-tracked","tag-ukraine","tag-wheeled"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116445563261453966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}