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Parent topics
- Artillery [r]: Crew-served military devices for propelling payloads over distance [e]
- Firearm [r]: Device, often designed to be used as a weapon, which projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion. [e]
Subtopics
- 20mm antiaircraft gun [r]: A manually tracked piece of anti-aircraft artillery widely used on ships of the U.S. Navy and other navies during World War II. [e]
- 40mm-56 caliber gun [r]: An antiaircraft (AA) gun used on almost every major U.S. and U.K. warship of World War II. [e]
- Goalkeeper (autocannon) [r]: 30mm U.K. autocannon used for final defense against anti-shipping missiles [e]
- M61 Vulcan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M242 Bushmaster [r]: A 25mm autocannon used on a wide variety of land, sea, and air platforms [e]
- M230 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phalanx close-in weapons system [r]: A 20mm autocannon system originally for shipboard final defense against subsonic anti-shipping missiles, obsolescent in that role but being deployed for land-based counter-rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM) defense against guerilla rockets [e]
- S-60 [r]: A Soviet 57mm anti-aircraft artillery piece, introduced in the 1950s and replaced by missiles as the division-level air defense weapon. [e]
Other related topics
- Machine gun [r]: A firearm capable not only of full-automatic fire, but with additional features, such as large ammunition supply mechanisms, barrel cooling or quick-change features, etc., that lets it fire for prolonged periods [e]
