Social media reports indicate that Ukrainian troops used the Copperhead rounds to target a comms tower east of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Three of these guided shells were fired from an M777 howitzer during. According to the journalists, the M712 Copperhead was mass-produced in the United States in the 1970s and represents the first generation of guided shells. The use of such munitions in modern warfare seemed unlikely. As of 1995, the U.S. military possessed up to 20,000 M712 Copperhead shells. Currently, they are no longer in production. Copperhead shells are laser-guided and have a r…