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• 155mm howitzer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Armored fighting vehicle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cluster munition [r]: A military weapon, fired or dropped from another weapon, that releases smaller submunitions that cause the actual destructive effect ^[e]
• Counterbattery [r]: Defense against enemy artillery involving identifying the point of origin of hostile fire and directing lethal force against it ^[e]
• Future Combat Systems [r]: An cancelled development program,including a variety of military systems, including armored fighting vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, artillery, precision guided munitions and unmanned aerial vehicles; was an evolutionary step in the restructuring of the United States Army and tailored to the brigade combat team organizational structure but will continue partially in the Brigade Combat Team Modernization ^[e]
• Howitzer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Indirect fire [r]: Weapons fire that is fired in an arc such that the projectile rises above the target elevation and descends to hit the target ^[e]
• Iraq War, major combat phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Israeli Defense Forces [r]: The combined ground, air, and naval armed forces of the state of Israel ^[e]
• M2 Bradley (armored fighting vehicle) [r]: A family of armored fighting vehicles, with roles including infantry fighting vehicle, scouting, forward observer, and other functions in a platform sufficiently survivable to accompany the M1 Abrams tank, although needing more protection ^[e]
• M26 (rocket) [r]: A series of long-range (20mi/32 km-28mi/45km) unguided rockets fired by the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System, carrying 518 to 644 cluster submunitions; retired due to an excessive number of submunitions failing to detonate and becoming effective minefields ^[e]
• M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System [r]: A fully-tracked artillery firing platform that carries two munitions pods, containing either six rockets or short-range surface-to-surface missiles, or one MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missile ^[e]
• M30 (rocket) [r]: An aerodynamically steered, rocket-propelled surface-to-surface missile, carrying cluster submunitions, fired by the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System at greater ranges than the M109 howitzer ^[e]
• MGM-140 ATACMS [r]: A short- to medium-range ballistic missile, developed by the U.S. Army to engage high-value ground targets beyond the range of cannon, yet under the direct control of ground forces commanders; fired by the M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System ^[e]
• Restructuring of the United States Army [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Self-propelled artillery [r]: An artillery piece, usually wheels or tracks, which has its own power source for road movement. While it may move with supporting vehicles such as ammunition carriers, it does not depend on them for propulsion. ^[e]
• Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System [r]: A family of military radios, intended for ground combat and operating in the very high frequency (VHF) part of the electromagnetic spectrum; it uses frequency agility and is otherwise designed to operate in an electronic warfare environment ^[e]
• Tank (military) [r]: A large land combat vehicle that moves on continuous tracks rather than wheels, has its primary armament in a rotating armored turret, is armored against more than small arms fire, and, while it can be extremely effective in many combat situations, is optimized to kill other tanks ^[e]

• United States Army [r]: Branch of the United States Armed Forces with the principal responsibility of conducting large-scale ground combat ^[e]
• XM31 (rocket) [r]: Add brief definition or description