Mortar/Related Articles

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Artillery [r]: Large-calibre guns used in land-based warfare; also the term for an armed forces branch trained in its use. ^[e]

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]