The U.S. Army has field­ed its next-gen­er­a­tion artillery sys­tem being man­u­fac­tured by BAE Sys­tems to GREYWOLF brigade.

On Mon­day, the 1st Cav­al­ry Divi­sion tweet said that the GREYWOLF brigade has received Pal­adin M109A7 Artillery Sys­tems, the lat­est how­itzers in the BAE Sys­tems M109 family.

“Say hel­lo to the M109A7 Pal­adin, and the most recent addi­tion to the GREYWOLF Fam­i­ly!,” said in a tweet. “The mod­ern­iza­tion efforts we make now, will enhance com­bat pow­er with­in America’s FIRSTTEAM, the U.S. Army, and entire Depart­ment of Defense dur­ing future large scale ground com­bat operations!”

The M109A7 will replace the cur­rent M109A6 Self-Pro­pelled How­itzer, for­mer­ly known as the Pal­adin Inte­grat­ed Man­age­ment pro­gram, as one of the Army’s most crit­i­cal com­bat vehi­cle mod­ern­iza­tion programs.

This next-gen­er­a­tion how­itzer incor­po­rates enhanced capa­bil­i­ties such as a brand new chas­sis, engine, trans­mis­sion, sus­pen­sion, and steer­ing sys­tem – com­po­nents com­mon to the Army’s Bradley Fight­ing Vehi­cles. This com­mon­al­i­ty reduces over­all pro­gram cost and the logis­ti­cal foot­print cou­pled with improved sur­viv­abil­i­ty to main­tain dom­i­nance on the battlefield.

The M109A7 is con­sid­ered to be the most cost-effec­tive method to sig­nif­i­cant­ly improve sus­tain­abil­i­ty and sur­viv­abil­i­ty, while reduc­ing the logis­tics bur­den on the U.S. Army Armored Brigade Com­bat Team and sup­port­ing fires brigades.

The Army has accept­ed deliv­ery of first low-rate ini­tial pro­duc­tion M109A7 self-pro­pelled how­itzer on April 9, 2014.