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FV433, 105mm, Field Artillery, Self-Propelled "Abbot" is the self-propelled artillery, or more specifically self-propelled gun (SPG), variant of the British Army FV430 series of armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs), using much of the chassis of the FV430 but with a fully rotating turret at the rear housing the 105 mm gun and given the vehicle designation of FV433.
This list of artillery catalogues types of weapons found in batteries of national armed forces' artillery units.. Some weapons used by the infantry units, known as infantry support weapons, are often misidentified as artillery weapons because of their use and performance characteristics, sometimes known colloquially as the "infantryman's artillery" [1] which has been particularly applied to ...
1.59-inch breech-loading Vickers Q.F. gun, Mk II (commonly called "Vickers-Crayford rocket gun") United Kingdom: 40 mm light field gun later adapted for use by aircraft 2 cm FlaK 30 Nazi Germany: 20 mm anti-aircraft gun 2 cm FlaK 38 Nazi Germany: 20 mm anti-aircraft gun 2 cm Flakvierling 38 Nazi Germany: 20 mm quad anti-aircraft gun
The M110A2s were made from refitted M110s or M107 175 mm self-propelled guns. [4] The 2nd Battalion 18th Field Artillery (U.S. Army), which inactivated in 1994 at Fort Sill , Oklahoma, and the 5th Battalion 18th Field Artillery served in Desert Storm with the M110A2, as did the 142nd Field Artillery Brigade ( Arkansas Army National Guard ) and ...
The process of delivering fire onto the target is called gunnery. The actions involved in operating an artillery piece are collectively called "serving the gun" by the "detachment" or gun crew, constituting either direct or indirect artillery fire. The manner in which gunnery crews (or formations) are employed is called artillery support.
A mixture of designations were in use for land artillery from the First World War (such as the BL 60-pounder gun, RML 2.5 inch Mountain Gun, 4 inch gun, 4.5 inch howitzer) through to the end of World War II (5.5 inch medium gun, 25-pounder gun-howitzer, 17-pounder tank gun), but the majority of naval guns were by caliber. After the end of World ...
Artillery has been one of primary weapons of war since before the Napoleonic Era. Several countries have developed and built artillery systems, while artillery itself has been continually improved and redesigned to meet the evolving needs of the battlefield. This has led to a multitude of different types and designs which have played a role in ...
2nd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment (United States) 3-inch/21-caliber field gun; 3-inch M1902 field gun; 3.2-inch gun M1897; 14-inch M1920 railway gun; 16-inch/50-caliber M1919 gun; 16-inch/50-caliber Mark 2 gun