M119 Howitzer as part of a training exercise conducted near Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, on Sept. 17, 2004 The howitzer was designed and produced by the British as the. Raptor Service Manual download free there. In the L118 configuration, the 105 mm ammunition is cased separate loading ammunition (not semi-fixed projectile and propelling charge as sometimes stated). The L118 entered service with the in 1976 and is used by and regiments. It saw combat during the, where the 30 guns in action fired up to 400 rounds per gun per day, mostly at 'charge super'—i.e., the most powerful propellant charge available. The L119 is the L118 reconfigured to fire -standard US/Nato 105 mm semi-fixed ammunition. In 1987 an agreement was reached to produce the L119 under license by the US as the M119, to replace the.

It entered service with,, California, in December 1989. Some improvements were made to produce the M119A1, including increasing its extreme low temperate envelope from −30 °C to −45 °C, improving maintainability. 1995 Mercury 4hp 2 Stroke Manual download free. The Army renewed contracts for the M119 to be produced by the -Joint Manufacturing & Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) at Rock Island, into the year 2013.

The 105 mm M20A1 cannon was produced by US Army Watervliet Arsenal. The M119 is currently fielded with all and, including those in the,, and divisions, and the. Other divisions may be of mixed composition between,, and infantry brigade combat teams, with armor having and having for their fires battalions. For example, two of four are IBCTs with M119s in the. National Guard light field artillery battalions assigned to IBCTs also have M119s, for example the headquartered in Vermont.

It is routinely airdropped in airborne operations and sling-loaded under or helicopters in air assault operations. 105mm howitzer being fired by A Battery, 2-218th Field Artillery of Oregon Alpha Battery of the, 101st Airborne Division received their first upgraded M119A3 howitzers in July 2013, and became the first unit to operate it in theater when they were deployed to northeast Afghanistan in early February 2014. The digitally upgraded M119A3 includes software and hardware component upgrades, for navigation, a digital gunner's display, and digital communication between each gun and the fire direction center to speed up the process of receiving firing data and firing shells. Firing platoons were also equipped with larger, also digital M777A2 howitzers, and the M119A3 was more admired for being faster, lighter, and easier to change azimuth of fire.