The Israeli army has incorporated new long-range American artillery and is also equipped with Soviet-made artillery captured in the Yom Kippur War and the 1967 Six-Day War, it was disclosed today. Gen. Nati Sharoni, commander of the artillery corps, said Israeli artillery has doubled its fire power since the Yom Kippur War.
The new American artillery is the 155 mm. cannon known as M-109E which has a range of 17 kilometers. According to Sharoni, the artillery corps has also received new, sophisticated equipment including computers that pin-point targets increasing the accuracy of fire. He recalled that in the Yom Kippur War the Arab armies enjoyed an enormous superiority in artillery which they employed according to the Russian doctrine of massed artillery bombardment.
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