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Business Insider: We got up-close with the US Army's M109 Paladin — armed with a machine gun, a grenade launcher, and a massive cannon
FORT BLISS, Texas — Two self-propelled M109 Paladin howitzers sat idly by on the 1st Armored Division's desert training grounds, waiting to hurl 155mm shells about 10 miles away.
Partaking in a large exercise called Bulldog Focus, the two Paladins were waiting for other convoys miles away to get in position before they could safely fire.
"These guns are designed to kill," Captain Alan Bauerly, who oversaw a few batteries, had said to his troops before they dispersed and waited to fire. "It doesn't care who it kills."
But before the artillerymen displayed the cannon's incredible power, I got a chance to tour the Paladin and speak to the troops operating it.
Here's what I saw:
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WNU Editor: That is one massive cannon.
