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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.
Before the towed artillery can be used, it has to stop, unlimber and set up the guns. To move position, the guns must be limbered up again and brought—usually towed—to the new location. By comparison, self-propelled artillery can stop at a chosen location and begin firing almost immediately, then quickly move on to a new position.
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 ...
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.
Each gun in a battery used two six-horse teams (for normal field artillery; heavier guns required much larger teams): one team pulled a limber that attached to the trail of the gun to form a four-wheeled wagon of sorts; the other pulled a limber that attached to a caisson. The large number of horses posed a logistical challenge for the ...
Notes Base: A long, narrow 15th–16th century cannon [1] Bombard: First recorded use in 1326, made of brass. [2] Culverin: A long-range cannon, first mentioned in 1410 [3] Curtall cannon: A type of cannon with a short barrel. [4] Demi-culverin: A medium cannon, smaller than a culverin Drake
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