Arsenal: M109 Self-Propelled Howitzer in Desert Storm, 1991

Arsenal: M109 Self-Propelled Howitzer in Desert Storm, 1991 follows tracked artillery batteries across the deserts of Kuwait and Iraq in the Persian Gulf War, showing how they moved, fired, and survived alongside armored divisions. Listeners hear the M109 in action on the gun line, the problem it was built to solve for fast moving Cold War armies, the story of its design and evolution into variants like Paladin, and the daily realities of crews living inside a steel box that bucks under recoil. The episode traces its baptism of fire, strengths and weaknesses in combat, and the legacy that lives on in museums, memorials, and modern artillery doctrine. Arsenal is the Friday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, and the podcast is developed by Trackpads.com.