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Anybody have a source or know when the Bundeswehr retired the M109G (the short tube version) from its direct support artillery battalions? Also, when did the M108s finally go away from the Belgian Army ?

From what i see the conversion started around 1980. It converted from the M109G to the M109A3GEA1 which added the loner barrel. As for the M108 the Belgians used it into the 80"s also some were converted into command posts.

Jason

So is it possible that a Bundeswehr Panzer brigade could have the G model M-109 providing fire support for its Leo 2 Panzer and Marder Panzergrenadier battalions ?
Did any of the G models get passed down to the territorial brigades to support them . Several of those brigades got “upgraded” with early model Leo1s and Marders when the regular divisions got Leo2s in the mid 80s .

From the information I have seen, the conversion was done quickly and was done by converting the existing M109's. The 56 Ter Brigade did have M109's as its artillery because of its wartime mission and was probably the last converted.

Jason

The M109 is a self-propelled howitzer with a caliber of 155 mm made in the USA . Their development began during the Cold War in the 1950s. Since 1962 it has been part of the artillery units of many countries and standard self-propelled howitzer of NATO. The M109 is an American 155 mm turreted self-propelled howitzer, first introduced in the early 1960s to replace the M44. It has been upgraded a number of times, most recently to the M109A7. The M109 family is the most common Western indirect-fire support weapon of maneuver brigades of armored and mechanized infantry