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SUB-TYPES OF ARTILLERY
- Field artillery - mobile weapons used to support armies in the
field. Subcategories include:
- infantry support guns - directly support infantry units (mostly
obsolete).
- mountain guns - lightweight weapons that can be moved through
difficult terrain.
- howitzers - capable of high angle fire.
- gun howitzers - capable of high or low angle fire with a long
barrel.
- mortars - lightweight weapons that fire projectiles at an angle of
over 45 degrees to the horizontal.
- Self-propelled artillery - typically guns, mortars or gun howitzers
mounted on a vehicle.
- Naval artillery - cannons mounted on warships and used either
against other ships or in support of ground forces. The crowning
achievement of naval artillery was the battleship, but the advent of
air-power and missiles have rendered this type of artillery largely
obsolete.
- Coastal artillery - Fixed-position weapons dedicated to defense of a
particular location, usually a coast (e.g. the Atlantic Wall in WW II)
or harbor. Not needing to be mobile, coastal artillery can be much
larger than equivalent field artillery pieces, giving them longer range
and more destructive power. Since World War II, however, modern weapons
and tactics have made them largely obsolete.
- Anti-aircraft artillery - weapons, usually mobile, dedicated to
attacking aircraft from the ground
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