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Parent topics
- Artillery [r]: Large-calibre guns used in land-based warfare; also the term for an armed forces branch trained in its use. [e]
Subtopics
- Light mortar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Medium mortar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heavy mortar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Controlling close support to ground forces [r]: Doctrine for deconflicting and activelu controlling all forms of kinetic and nonkinetic fires support to troops close enough to the enemy that there is a significant danger of fratricide or degrading friendly capabilities [e]
- Counter-rocket, artillery and mortar [r]: Military equipment and techniques to detect unguided rockets, artillery shells, and mortar rounds in flight, warn friendly forces that are threatened, and, with new methods, intercept and destroy the projectiles before they can do damage [e]
- Phalanx close-in weapons system [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]
- TPQ-36 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- TPQ-46 [r]: Formerly the Lightweight Countermortar Radar, a 360-degree coverage, short-range counterbattery/counter-rocket, artillery and mortar radar [e]
- Crew-served weapon [r]: A military weapon that, in practice, be operated by one person; when it has been made ready, an individual might be able to fire it, but not move it [e]
- Air, artillery and missile defense [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cannon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chemical weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fire control (military) [r]: Techniques and equipment to designate military weapons (artillery, guided missiles) to be launched, launching them, and, especially when not precision-guided munitions, adjusting subsequent projectile launches so they achieve the desired effect. [e]
- Forward observer [r]: An individual or team, specializing in artillery, who accompanies ground troops and directs indirect fire artillery in support of those ground troops [e]
- 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]
- Indochinese revolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Israel-Palestine security [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joint warfare in South Vietnam 1964-1968 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mountain warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tactics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Terrorism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Warhead [r]: Add brief definition or description