Artillery
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Artillery is a class of heavy military ranged weapons built to launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during sieges, and led to heavy, fairly immobile siege engines. As technology improved, lighter, more mobile field artillery cannons developed for battlefield use. This development continues today; modern self-propelled artillery vehicles are highly mobile weapons of great versatility providing the large share of an army's total firepower.
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See also
- List of artillery
- Indirect fire
- Advanced Gun System
- Aiming point
- Artillery battery
- Artillery fuze
- Artillery museums
- Barrage (artillery)
- Beehive anti-personnel round
- Combustion light-gas gun
- Cordite
- Counter-battery fire
- Counter-battery radar
- Fuze
- Project Babylon
- Gun laying
- Howitzer
- Light-gas gun
- Naval artillery
- Nuclear artillery
- Paris Gun
- Railgun
- Coilgun
- Shell (projectile)
- Shoot-and-scoot
- Shrapnel shell
- Sound ranging
- Suppressive fire
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