Artillery
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Artillery consists of ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifi
French soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War 1870–71
British 64 Pounder Rifled Muzzle-Loaded (RML) Gun on a Moncrieff disappearing mount, at Scaur Hill Fort, Bermuda. This is a part of a fixed battery, meant to protect against over-land attack and to serve as coastal artillery.
7-person gun crew firing a US M777 Light Towed Howitzer, War in Afghanistan, 2009
Artillery illuminating ammunition used in a shooting exercise on Simplon Pass, Switzerland. The illuminated mountain is Mount Fletschhorn, 9 km from the photographer's position.
Large-calibre artillery
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The formal definition of large-calibre artillery used by the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms is "guns, howitzers, artillery pieces, combining the characteristics of a gun, howitzer, morta
Adolf Gun, a Nazi German cross-channel firing gun
Flemish Dulle Griet
Austrian Pumhart von Steyr
Russian Tsar Cannon