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Originally Posted by FASTBOAT TOUGH
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The M107 (using the M113 175mm gun) and M110 (using the M201 203mm howitzer) SP artillery both use the same chassis it's merely a matter of which gun (175 or 203) is mounted on it. For practical reasons a given battery will generally stick to one tube or the other.
The last M110 was phased out of USMC inventory in 1991 (they did not participate in Gulf I) as were the reserve M113 gun tubes (last used actively c.a. 1978).
All that said
Hard to beat 175's for counter-battery (at least till the advent of rocket assisted shells), then again that's specifically what they were designed for.