[86] M777 of Battery C, 1st Battalion, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Regiment firing at Forward Operating Base Bostick, Afghanistan, 2009. Marines fire an M777A2 155 mm howitzer.

And like Pittsburgh, Sheffield has reinvented itself. While it continues to produce cutlery, Sheffield is also where the UK's M777 Howitzer will soon be manufactured, as BAE Systems announced this ...

The 94,000 sq ft (8,730 sq m) facility will produce 155 mm M777 lightweight towed howitzers ... The facility will bring production of the howitzer back to the UK after it was wound down due ...

BAE Systems has started building a new plant in UK’s Sheffield for the development and production of M777 howitzers. This marks a £25 million investment aimed at revitalizing the UK’s artillery ...

"M777 has passed every development and operational test in vital areas such as accuracy, consistency, operational flexibility and mobility. There is no other modern howitzer which has been subjected ...

The M777 was designed by the now-defunct Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering between 1987 and 2003 and officially debuted in 2005 (smack dab in the middle of the Global War on Terror).

Arms company BAE Systems says it will make titanium structures for the M777 towed howitzer. The site in the north east of the city opens next year. It follows a deal with the US Army in January.

Australian Army soldiers from 4th Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery load the M777 Howitzer during a live ... this is due to the lethality, range and accuracy of rounds continually increasing.

On Friday the company said the facility will begin making M777 towed howitzers next year, creating 50 skilled jobs locally. The new building was built by a third party and has been leased by BAE ...