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Video shot and edited by Nathan Fitch. (video link) Shooting things you can see is hard enough. Shooting things you can't see based on directions someone being shot at is giving you over a staticky radio is even harder. But a digital addition to the Army's most nimble of artillery pieces is making the job of delivering explosive packages accurately and on time a lot easier. Over the past two years, the US Army has been applying technology that was once the province of submarines and strategic bombers to a piece of weaponry with a somewhat more humble history: light field artillery.