By Eliza Popova
The mortar was destroyed. "Glory to the Armed Forces!", - the post reads. The American self-propelled howitzer M109 was developed in the 1960s. The technique was modernized from 1962 to 2003. It was also licensed in the 1990s in South Korea. The latest version of the self -propelled howitzer is M109A7. For the first time, M109 was used during the Vietnamese war in real combat conditions during the Vietnamese war. SAU was later used in other conflicts.
In the US, it remains the main self -propelled artillery system of the country's troops in the near future. The system is a standard NATO SAU, and has also been supplied in a number of other countries in large quantities and has been used in many regional conflicts. We will remind, on August 2, the fighters of 17 tank were effectively used by M109.
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