KNDS Unveils the LORAS Very-Long-Range 155mm Artillery System
Paris, 15 June 2026
Key points
- KNDS unveiled LORAS (Long Range Artillery System) at Eurosatory — a 155mm/58-calibre gun reaching beyond 60 kilometres with standard rounds and up to 100 with special munitions, against roughly 40 today
- It is designed to drop onto in-service wheeled or tracked platforms — shown on a Boxer — while still firing NATO-standard 52-calibre shells
- It has already fired some 300 rounds in testing and sits within a full KNDS indirect-fires family spanning loitering munitions and 105mm and 155mm guns
- It is Europe's bid to close the artillery-range gap that Russian and Chinese systems have opened
KNDS unveiled LORAS, a 155mm/58-calibre artillery system, at Eurosatory — reaching beyond 60 kilometres with standard rounds and up to 100 with special munitions, against roughly 40 today, and designed to drop onto in-service vehicles like the Boxer.
The reach is the headline: a 58-calibre barrel firing a new standard round beyond 60 kilometres, and special munitions to 100 — well past the roughly 40 kilometres that in-service NATO 52-calibre guns manage. The design point that makes it credible is backward compatibility: LORAS still fires the NATO-standard 52-calibre shells armies already stock, and is built to mount on wheeled or tracked platforms already in service, shown at the show on a Boxer. KNDS says it has already fired some 300 rounds in testing.
It anchors a full KNDS indirect-fires family — loitering munitions, 105mm and 155mm guns — pitched as a single-source artillery offer at a moment when range and rate are the metrics that matter.
The proprietary read. Artillery range is the quiet arms race the drone war has obscured, and Europe has been losing it — Russian and Chinese tube systems out-range NATO's standard 52-calibre guns, which means European batteries can be struck from beyond their own reach. LORAS is the answer that respects the installed base: more range without a new platform or a new shell-logistics chain. The 300 rounds already fired are the signal that this is a maturing system, not a Eurosatory mock-up — the test is which army funds it first. Tracked in Signal No. 83.
Sources: KNDS · EDR Magazine.
First reported in Signal No. 83, 16 June 2026.