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Parent topics

• Air defense artillery [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Counterbattery [r]: Defense against enemy artillery involving identifying the point of origin of hostile fire and directing lethal force against it ^[e]
• Forward Area Air Defense [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Artillery [r]: Large-calibre guns used in land-based warfare; also the term for an armed forces branch trained in its use. ^[e]
• Mortar [r]: A piece of artillery, sometimes light enough to be carried by infantry, which has a short barrel length relative to the shell caliber, and fires in a high indirect trajectory, often desirable to fire over obstacles. ^[e]
• "Centurion" Land-Based Phalanx Weapon System (LPWS) [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]
• Rocket [r]: A form of artillery weapon that uses a rocket motor to propel a warhead at a target, using no guidance once launched ^[e]

Other related topics

• AN/TPQ-36 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• AN/TPQ-37 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• AN/TPQ-46 [r]: Formerly the Lightweight Countermortar Radar, a 360-degree coverage, short-range counterbattery/counter-rocket, artillery and mortar radar ^[e]