Artillery systems are essential items in any nation's arsenal.
Indirect fire support is still recognised as having a devastating effect on the modern battlefield. Considerable effort is being expanded to develop artillery technology to improve lethality, reach, rates of fire and accuracy. Given that most nations even in the developed world lack the resources to regularly buy whole new systems as new technologies are introduced, there is a burgeoning market for upgrades to modernise artillery systems. Artillery is well placed to benefit from the insertion of new technologies. This ideally should take place in an integrated manner to leverage maximum benefit from scarce resources.