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- 130mm gun [r]: An older piece of Soviet-designed artillery, which outranged most light (105mm) and medium 155mm howitzers of its time [e]
- 155mm howitzer [r]: Implemented in self-propelled or lightweight towed versions, this howitzer size, with slight variations in caliber, is the world's most common medium artillery type [e]
- 4.5"-55 caliber Mark 8 gun [r]: A redesigned British naval gun intended to have a higher rate of fire than its Mark 6 predecessor, but whose Mark 0 first version suffered from jamming during the Falklands War; the current Mark 1 has substantial changes and is replacing Mark 0s. [e]
- Air assault [r]: Military operations in which infantry are carried by aircraft onto, or very near, the target, or by parachuting. The aircraft may be helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft, short-landing transports, or, historically, gliders. [e]
- Air defense artillery [r]: A combat arms branch of the United States Army, responsible for defending ground forces and the continental United States against aircraft and missile attack [e]
- Autocannon [r]: A magazine-fed cannon that will load and fire continuously until its magazine is empty. [e]
- Battalion [r]: Military formation of defined size, equipment, and organization, traditionally specialized for one function, such as infantry, artillery, transportation or intelligence; usually commanded by a lieutenant colonel; combat arms battalions may have 500-1000 soldiers; they are more mixed in function under the Restructuring of the United States Army [e]
- Battery (artillery) [r]: The basic tactical organization for artillery units, consisting, in modern militaries, of a group of multiple rocket launchers, howitzers, or guided missile launchers that will be under common control and often fire at the same target [e]
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- Battle of Bong Son [r]: First battle, in the Vietnam War, involving combat by a reinforced helicopter-borne division, with all elements in combat at the same time. [e]
- Battle of Na San [r]: A successful yet modest 1952 operation conducted by French paratroopers, who seized a forward base, and, under optimal conditions, formed a rock of a defense against which Viet Minh smashed themselves. It may have set unrealistic expectations for Dien Bien Phu [e]
- Battle of the Ia Drang [r]: First divisional-scale battle involving helicopter-borne air assault troops, with U.S. forces against those of North Vietnam [e]
- CH-47 Chinook [r]: Medium transport helicopter developed by the U.S. Army and used by a wide range of countries [e]
- Cannon [r]: Sizable crew-served weapons, which fire projectiles through a tube called a barrel. [e]
- Circular error probability [r]: The most common metric of how close to a target a weapon will strike: the radius of a circle, centered on the mean impact point, in which half the projectiles of that weapon will hit [e]
- Cluster munition [r]: A military weapon, fired or dropped from another weapon, that releases smaller submunitions that cause the actual destructive effect [e]
- Counterbattery [r]: Defense against enemy artillery involving identifying the point of origin of hostile fire and directing lethal force against it [e]
- Crew-served weapon [r]: A military weapon that, in practice, be operated by one person; when it has been made ready, an individual might be able to fire it, but not move it [e]
- Destroyer [r]: While the definition has evolved constantly, it is a multipurpose surface warship, generally less powerful than a cruiser, with capabilities against ship, aircraft, submarine, land, and sometimes ballistic missile targets [e]
- Dien Bien Phu [r]: Site in northern Vietnam of a 1954 decisive battle that soon forced France to relinquish control of colonial Indochina. [e]
- Fire control (military) [r]: Techniques and equipment to designate military weapons (artillery, guided missiles) to be launched, launching them, and, especially when not precision-guided munitions, adjusting subsequent projectile launches so they achieve the desired effect. [e]
- Forward observer [r]: An individual or team, specializing in artillery, who accompanies ground troops and directs indirect fire artillery in support of those ground troops [e]
- Future Combat Systems [r]: An cancelled development program,including a variety of military systems, including armored fighting vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, artillery, precision guided munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles; was an evolutionary step in the restructuring of the United States Army and tailored to the brigade combat team organizational structure but will continue partially in the Brigade Combat Team Modernization [e]
- Go-onto-location-in-space [r]: A weapons guidance paradigm in which the weapon guides itself to a specific set of geographic coordinates and activates its warhead, rather than sensing and tracking a target [e]
- Guided missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Guided shell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Indirect fire [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Indochinese revolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Infantry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Katyusha rocket [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Landing Craft Rocket [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M109 howitzer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mortar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Multiple rocket launcher [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Radar MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Radar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Restructuring of the United States Army [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rocket science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Self-propelled artillery [r]: Add brief definition or description
- South Africa [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Suppression of enemy air defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tactical Mobility Requirements Board [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tank (military) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tet Offensive [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Unguided rocket [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Vietnam War military technology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Warhead [r]: Add brief definition or description