Artillery
Artillery is a class of heavy military ranged weapons built to launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during sieges, and led to heavy, fairly immobile siege engines. As technology improved, lighter, more mobile field artillery cannons developed for battlefield use. This development continues today; modern self-propelled artillery vehicles are highly mobile weapons of great versatility generally providing the largest share of an army's total firepower. Originally, the word "artillery" referred to any group of soldiers primarily armed with some form of manufactured …
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UCIPR: Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research · 17 May 2024 English
At the same time, the pseudo elections were geared towards involving the locals of the non government con trolled areas into collaborationism, deepening the social gap between populations of the …
attacked the city on an ongoing basis using not only artillery, but also aerial bombs. For this reason, the city’s … up to celebrate the Day of Missile Forces and Artillery in the frontline village of Zarichne. More than … The occupiers used positions for missile and artillery strikes on Ukrainian troops in Ochakiv, south …
CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 16 May 2024 English
Vladimir Putin has reason to be confident that Russia can maintain current military spending levels for a relatively long time. This is bad news for Ukraine, its Western partners and …
including both relatively simple items like artillery ammunition and more complex technology such as …
Pacific Forum · 16 May 2024
The uptick in Chinese military pressure across the Strait as well as in the South China Sea also The “Year of Elections” is upon us and, notwithstanding concerned the US …
the Philippines expanded to of the two Koreas’ artillery shelling near the Northern include new participants …
CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 13 May 2024 English
The divisions in contemporary geopolitics are an inevitable consequence of colliding ideas and interests against the backdrop of American primacy. The United States should accept their reality while advancing its …
industrial complex cannot meet the heavy demand for artillery ammunition. In exchange, Russian transfers of … appears to be covertly negotiating a sale of artillery shells to Germany for onward transfer to Ukraine …
Lowy Institute for International Policy · 12 May 2024 English
Executive summary This paper analyses the evolution of Myanmar’s civil war with a view to identifying optimal international policy responses. The sharp escalation of armed resistance since late 2023 holds …
against a modern military with tanks, long-range artillery, attack helicopters, and jet fighters, which has … resistance were able to take out the main air and artillery bases, a frontal attack on one or more cities …
ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 9 May 2024 English
Introduction Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government was re-elected to power for the fourth consecutive time at the 12 th parliamentary election in January 2024. PM Hasina returned …
Chattogram. The Tatmadaw has retaliated with artillery bombardments, often leading to civilian casualties …
RAND Corporation · 7 May 2024 English
The perennial debate about whether U.S. allies are contributing sufficiently to the collective defense of the post–World War II liberal international order has resurfaced in recent years. In this report, …
battle tanks Mechanized vehicles Helicopters Artillery Quality of ground forces Ground forces Tactical …
FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 6 May 2024 English
Bottom Line Current US policy in Syria is inherently contradictory and destined to be counterproductive in the long run by focusing too narrowly on counterterrorism while neglecting other critical areas. …
years, Turkey has intensi�ed air campaigns and artillery shelling on vital civilian infrastructure in northern …
JINSA: Jewish Institute for National Security of America · 6 May 2024 English
Therefore: Gaza City is a dangerous fighting zone; avoid crossing to the north of Wadi Gaza.” The flyer also stated, “it is prohibited to come near to the eastern and …
tula/ l On May 6, the IDF said that it fired artillery toward the site of an earlier rocket barrage targeting … near Naqoura, Marwahin, Hanine and Matmoura with artillery to “remove threats,” and tanks shelled a building … troops shelled areas near Aalma ash-Shab with artillery to “remove threats.” » The IDF said that overnight … detonated in his car. l On May 5, the IDF fired artillery toward the site from which two rockets were fired …
ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 6 May 2024 English
Introduction Since assuming power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has made a determined attempt to strengthen the Indian arms industry and transform the country’s image from the world’s …
private sector include transport aircraft (Tata), artillery guns (L&T, Indian Defence Indian Defence Industry: … include “Dornier-228, 155 mm Advanced Towed Artillery Guns, Brahmos Missiles, Akash Missile System, … private sector, Bharat Forge’s export of 155mm artillery guns (worth US$155 million) is notable.23 Defence … “Bharat Forge arm gets $1550 order to export artillery guns,” The Times of India, November 10, 2022 …
