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| '''Artillery''' is a term for devices, their supporting infrastructure, techniques and personnel for propelling '''payloads''' or '''projectiles''', over distances and obstacles, to hit a target. Usually, the target is a physical object such as a building, a tank, or an aircraft. The target may also be a location in space to which the payload will burst, scattering materials as nonlethal as propaganda leaflets, or as dangerous as fragmenting explosives or nuclear weapons. | | As defined by the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', '''artillery''' is an umbrella term for large-calibre guns used in land-based warfare; also the term for an armed forces branch trained in the use of artillery.<ref>OED 2004, 11th edition, p. 74.</ref> |
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| Artillery includes cannon, unguided rockets, and guided missiles. It can include aircraft cannon and unguided rockets, but is not usually considered to include [[gravity bomb]]s or air-launched [[guided missile]]s. Artillery is most often fired from land, but also from warships.
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| ! Propulsion
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| | [[Cannon]]
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| | Energy of propellant exploding behind projectile [Note 1]]
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| | Ballistic setting of cannon; some [[guided shell]]s
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| | [[Unguided rockets]]
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| | Propellant burning for at least part of the trajectory
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| | Ballistic, preset fins [[Note 2]]
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| | [[Guided missile]]
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| | Jet or rocket burning for at least part of the trajectory
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| | Many types
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| *Note 1: Some projectiles may have supplementary rockets, glide wings, or both, but the primary energy comes from the propellant gases in the cannon
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| *Note 2: Some [[multiple rocket launcher]]s are deliberately inaccurate, firing tens of rockets whose variations cover an area.
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| Artillery, of all types, falls into the general category of [[direct fire]] or [[indirect fire]]. Indirect fire needs either preplanned trajectories for specific targets, a [[forward observer]] giving corrections to the firing unit, or the use of [[precision-guided munition]] that will adjust their course to '''go to location in space''' (GOLIS) or '''go onto target''' (GOT).
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| Most modern artillery must be operated by several people (i.e., [[crew-served weapon]]), and rarely can be moved by muscle power alone. It will be towed by a vehicle, lifeted by a [[helicopter]], or may be [[self-propelled artillery]]
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| ==Fire direction==
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| ==Organization of artillery units==
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