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Adolf Gun, a Nazi German cross-channel firing gun. The formal definition of large-calibre artillery used by the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) is "guns, howitzers, artillery pieces, combining the characteristics of a gun, howitzer, mortar, or rocket, capable of engaging surface targets by delivering primarily indirect fire, with a calibre of 76.2 mm (3.00 in) and above". [1]
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 ...
Any large, smoothbore, muzzle-loading gun—used before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns—may be referred to as a cannon, though once standardised names were assigned to different-sized cannon, the term specifically referred to a gun designed to fire a 42-pound (19 kg) shot, as distinct from a demi-cannon – 32 pounds (15 kg ...
M110A1 CSASS M110E1: Heckler & Koch: 7.62×51mm: Short-stroke piston (semi-auto) Germany 2005 KSVK 12.7: Degtyarev plant: 12.7×108mm: Bolt-action Russia 1997 Remington MSR: Remington Arms
Different armies use different approaches to ammunition supply, which can vary with the nature of operations. Differences include where the logistic service transfers artillery ammunition to artillery, the amount of ammunition carried in units and extent to which stocks are held at unit or battery level.
People's Republic of China: Cold War 122: Type 83 howitzer People's Republic of China: Modern 122: Type 60 howitzer People's Republic of China: Cold War, modern 122: HM-40 howitzer Iran: 127: BL 5 inch howitzer United Kingdom: Second Boer War, World War I 130: 130 mm towed field gun M1954 (M-46) Soviet Union: Cold War 137.2: BL 5.4 inch ...
Multi Caliber Individual Weapon System: Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli: 5.56×45mm NATO 7.62×39mm 6.8mm Remington SPC India 2012 Nesterov assault rifle: 7.62×39mm Soviet Union: 1961 Norinco CQ: Norinco: 5.56×45mm NATO China: Yes 1980s-present Norinco Type 86S: Norinco: 7.62×39mm China: 1980s OTs-12 Tiss: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: 9× ...
Most late-19th-century warships mounted naval artillery of more than one caliber because of uncertainty about the relative destruction possible from a few large shells (which might miss) in comparison to the increased hit probability of a larger number of less damaging small-caliber shells fired within the same time period.