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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.
The following list of artillery cover guns, howitzers, mortars, and other large projectile weapons. Small arms and missiles are not included, though artillery rockets and other bombardment weapons are. This list is ordered by name or designation in alpha-numeric order.
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 ...
Early 15th-century Flemish giant cannon Dulle Griet at Ghent (caliber of 660 mm). This list contains all types of cannon through the ages listed in decreasing caliber size. For the purpose of this list, the development of large-calibre artillery can be divided into three periods, based on the kind of projectiles used, due to their dissimilar characteristics, and being practically ...
Artillery of the United States include artillery designed, built, or operated by the United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 14 subcategories ...
1,034,462 of the Model 760 alone were made from 1952-1980: Vetterli M1870: Bolt-action rifle Italy: 1,500,000 Remington Rolling Block: Single-shot rifle United States: 1,500,000 [122] Pattern 1853 Enfield: Rifle-musket United Kingdom: 1,500,000 [123] [page needed] MP 38 and MP 40: Submachine gun Nazi Germany: 1,100,000 [124] 1,500,000 [124 ...
A XM1113 extended range artillery round, shown here at a range demonstration, uses a rocket-assist motor. The M1299 was armed with a new 155 mm L/58 caliber long, 9.1 m gun tube, XM907 gun, designed by Benét Laboratories to fire the XM1113 rocket-assisted round. This would give a range of over 70 km (43 mi) – much greater than the 38 km (24 ...
[51] [52] [53] Some weapons were removed from forts with the intent of getting US-made artillery into the fight. 5-inch and 6-inch guns became field guns on wheeled carriages. [ 54 ] 12-inch mortars were also removed as railway artillery or to improve reload times by reducing the number of mortars in a pit from four to two; this happened at ...