Types
- Field guns - capable of long range fire
- Gun howitzers - capable of high or low angle fire with a long barrel
- Howitzers - capable of high angle fire
- Infantry support guns - directly support infantry units (mostly obsolete)
- Mortars - lightweight weapons that fire projectiles at an angle of over 45 degrees to the horizontal
- Mountain guns - lightweight weapons that can be moved through difficult terrain
- Multiple rocket launchers - Mobile rocket artillery Launchers
Read more about this topic: Field Artillery
Famous quotes containing the word types:
“He types his laboured column—weary drudge!
Senile fudge and solemn:
Spare, editor, to condemn
These dry leaves of his autumn.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
“The wider the range of possibilities we offer children, the more intense will be their motivations and the richer their experiences. We must widen the range of topics and goals, the types of situations we offer and their degree of structure, the kinds and combinations of resources and materials, and the possible interactions with things, peers, and adults.”
—Loris Malaguzzi (1920–1994)
“The rank and file have let their servants become their masters and dictators.... Provision should be made in all union constitutions for the recall of leaders. Big salaries should not be paid. Career hunters should be driven out, as well as leaders who use labor for political ends. These types are menaces to the advancement of labor.”
—Mother Jones (1830–1930)