The Palmaria is an Italian self-propelled howitzer using the 155 mm (6.1″) NATO-standard artillery calibre.

Including manual reloading of the charge, the overall firing rate is normally one round per minute for one hour.

The Palmaria has torsion bar suspension with seven roadwheels and five return rollers on either side.

[7] Several were destroyed during the First Libyan civil war as a result of multinational military intervention.

[3] Argentina mounted the Palmaria turrets onto TAM chassis as one possible replacement for their AMX-13 Mk.