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  "description": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParis, 15 June 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * KNDS unveiled LORAS (Long Range Artillery System) at Eurosatory — a 155mm/58-calibre gun reaching beyond 60 kilometres with standard rounds and up to 100 with special munitions, against roughly 40 today\n * It is designed to drop onto in-service wheeled or tracked platforms — shown on a Boxer — while still firing NATO-standard 52-calibre shells\n * It has already fired some 300 rounds in testing and sits within a full KNDS indirect-fires family sp",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-14T23:41:00.000Z",
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    "Signal No. 83"
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  "textContent": "Paris, 15 June 2026\n\n### Key points\n\n  * KNDS unveiled LORAS (Long Range Artillery System) at Eurosatory — a 155mm/58-calibre gun reaching beyond 60 kilometres with standard rounds and up to 100 with special munitions, against roughly 40 today\n  * It is designed to drop onto in-service wheeled or tracked platforms — shown on a Boxer — while still firing NATO-standard 52-calibre shells\n  * It has already fired some 300 rounds in testing and sits within a full KNDS indirect-fires family spanning loitering munitions and 105mm and 155mm guns\n  * It is Europe's bid to close the artillery-range gap that Russian and Chinese systems have opened\n\n\n\nKNDS unveiled LORAS, a 155mm/58-calibre artillery system, at Eurosatory — reaching beyond 60 kilometres with standard rounds and up to 100 with special munitions, against roughly 40 today, and designed to drop onto in-service vehicles like the Boxer.\n\nThe reach is the headline: a 58-calibre barrel firing a new standard round beyond 60 kilometres, and special munitions to 100 — well past the roughly 40 kilometres that in-service NATO 52-calibre guns manage. The design point that makes it credible is backward compatibility: LORAS still fires the NATO-standard 52-calibre shells armies already stock, and is built to mount on wheeled or tracked platforms already in service, shown at the show on a Boxer. KNDS says it has already fired some 300 rounds in testing.\n\nIt anchors a full KNDS indirect-fires family — loitering munitions, 105mm and 155mm guns — pitched as a single-source artillery offer at a moment when range and rate are the metrics that matter.\n\n**The proprietary read.** Artillery range is the quiet arms race the drone war has obscured, and Europe has been losing it — Russian and Chinese tube systems out-range NATO's standard 52-calibre guns, which means European batteries can be struck from beyond their own reach. LORAS is the answer that respects the installed base: more range without a new platform or a new shell-logistics chain. The 300 rounds already fired are the signal that this is a maturing system, not a Eurosatory mock-up — the test is which army funds it first. Tracked in Signal No. 83.\n\nSources: KNDS · EDR Magazine.\n\nFirst reported in Signal No. 83, 16 June 2026.",
  "title": "KNDS Unveils the LORAS Very-Long-Range 155mm Artillery System",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-17T23:41:50.425Z"
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