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Artillery [r]: Crew-served military devices for propelling payloads over distance ^[e]
Fire direction [r]: Add brief definition or description

155mm howitzer [r]: Implemented in self-propelled or lightweight towed versions, this howitzer size, with slight variations in caliber, is the world's most common medium artillery type ^[e]
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]
Howitzer [r]: An artillery piece with a medium ratio between barrel length and diameter; longer than a mortar and shorter than a gun; the most common form of modern cannon ^[e]
M109 howitzer [r]: A family of self-propelled 155mm howitzers developed by the U.S. Army ^[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]
Multiple rocket launcher [r]: In modern use, a family of mobile artillery systems, firing unguided rockets intended for area-effect coverage, complementing howitzers for point targets. These systems, however, increasingly use guided rounds. ^[e]

Direct fire [r]: A military term for battlefield weapons fired with a direct line of sight on their target; projectile weapons actually fire in a parabolic trajectory that approximates a straight line for short distances ^[e]
Guided shell [r]: A piece of artillery ammunition that can alter its course after being fired. ^[e]
Precision-guided munition [r]: A powered or unpowered weapon that adjusts its flight path to hit a specific target, with a circular error probability in the low number of meters, often less than the radius of destruction ^[e]
Vertical launch [r]: Add brief definition or description