Mortar/Related Articles

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Controlling close support to ground forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
Counter-rocket, artillery and mortar [r]: Military equipment and techniques to detect unguided rockets, artillery shells, and mortar rounds in flight, warn friendly forces that are threatened, and, with new methods, intercept and destroy the projectiles before they can do damage ^[e]
- Phalanx close-in weapons system [r]: A 20mm autocannon system originally for shipboard final defense against subsonic anti-shipping missiles, obsolescent in that role but being deployed for land-based counter-rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM) defense against guerrilla rockets. ^[e]
- TPQ-36 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- TPQ-46 [r]: Formerly the Lightweight Countermortar Radar, a 360-degree coverage, short-range counterbattery/counter-rocket, artillery and mortar radar ^[e]
Crew-served weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description

Air, artillery and missile defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cannon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Howitzer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gun [r]: Either a general term for firearm, or a type of artillery with a relatively long barrel with respect to caliber, giving the projectile a fairly flat trajectory ^[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]: Add brief definition or description