Italy bought 221 155 mm M109s from the USA with out armament. The armament was manufactured and put in in Italy by Otobreda (at the moment often called OTO Melara) and issued to the Italian Army. Along with taking supply of the 221 155 mm M109s with out armament, the Italian Army additionally took supply of 62 full 155 mm M109A1B methods.
In 1970-71 Otobreda produced a long-barrel model of the 155 mm M109 able to firing FH-70 projectiles to a most vary of 24,000 m. At the moment there was no Italian Army requirement for this improve in vary however early in 1984 the Italian Ministry of Defence ordered three examples of this for in depth trials.
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