The 130th Field Artillery Brigade, deployed to the Central Command (CENTCOM) region, have developed improvements over the last several months for commanders to detect enemy air activity. A commander, at any level, needs timely and accurate information regarding enemy activity to make effective decisions on the battlefield. Decreasing any delays or errors in this process is worth every effort. The 130th Field Artillery Brigade, Air Defense and Airspace Management (ADAM) Cell, put in that effort to achieve valuable results. Several other organizations within the Central Command (CENTCOM) region assisted them, to include Task Force Spartan and the Combined Air Operations Center. Their work has led to radar and defense systems that were never suspected to be compatible, assessing threats at a higher capacity, enabling commanders’ operability. This includes greater vision of the growing threat of Unmanned Ariel Systems (UAS). The brigade ADAM Cell’s current air picture
Fires Shock artillery drills end in the Arctic as US Army launches rockets in Norway
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Col. Daniel Miller, 41st Field Artillery Brigade commander, meets with Norwegian artillery soldiers to observe firing with the K-9 self-propelled howitzer during Exercise Thunderbolt on June 9, 2021, in Setermoen, Norway. (Joe Bush/U.S. Army)
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany The U.S. Army’s only long-range artillery brigade in Europe fired its rockets this week in the Arctic region, marking a first for a unit that has been tested in a new series of drills stretching from the High North to Africa.
The 41st Field Artillery Brigade marked the end of its Fires Shock exercises with a live-fire event in Setermoen, Norway, where it combined forces Thursday with its Norwegian counterparts.
The only U.S. rocket artillery brigade in Europe moved rapidly across borders and launched its mobile weapons in Bulgaria, a display of speed aimed at reassuring NATO allies confronted by an increasingly assertive Russia.