The 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 was an American self-propelled gun vehicle produced during World War II. It was given the official service name 105 mm Self Propelled Gun, Priest by the British Army, due to the pulpit-like machine gun ring, and following on from the Bishop and the contemporary Deacon self-propelled guns.
M7 preserved at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
M7 Priest passes by a Humber Scout Car as it moves into position to support an attack on Caen, 8 July 1944.
Austrian Bundesheer M7 Priest at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
M7 at the Tank Museum Brussels (Belgium)
Self-propelled artillery is artillery equipped with its own propulsion system to move toward its firing position. Within the terminology are the self-propelled gun, self-propelled howitzer, self-propelled mortar, and self-propelled rocket artillery. They are high mobility vehicles, usually based on continuous tracks carrying either a large field gun, howitzer, mortar, or some form of rocket/missile launcher. They are usually used for long-range indirect bombardment support on the battlefield.
British AS-90s firing in Basra, Iraq, 2008
A Panzerhaubitze 2000 of the German Army arriving in Afghanistan
A 2S19M2 Msta-S of the Russian Army
British Gun Carrier Mark I (60 pdr)
