Indirect fire > Related Articles
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
- See also pages that link to Indirect fire or to this page.
Parent topics
- artillery [r]: Crew-served military devices for propelling payloads over distance [e]
- fire direction [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- 155mm howitzer [r]: Implemented in self-propelled or lightweight towed versions, this howitzer size, with slight variations in caliber, is the world's most common medium artillery type [e]
- gun [r]: Either a general term for firearm, or a type of artillery with a relatively long barrel with respect to caliber, giving the projectile a fairly flat trajectory [e]
- howitzer [r]: An artillery piece with a medium ratio between barrel length and diameter; longer than a mortar and shorter than a gun; the most common form of modern cannon [e]
- M109 howitzer [r]: A family of self-propelled 155mm howitzers developed by the U.S. Army [e]
- mortar [r]: A piece of artillery, sometimes light enough to be carried by infantry, which has a short barrel length relative to the shell caliber, and fires in a high indirect trajectory, often desirable to fire over obstacles. [e]
- multiple rocket launcher [r]: In modern use, a family of mobile artillery systems, firing unguided rockets intended for area-effect coverage, complementing howitzers for point targets. These systems, however, increasingly use guided rounds. [e]
Other related topics
- direct fire [r]: A military term for battlefield weapons fired with a direct line of sight on their target; projectile weapons actually fire in a parabolic trajectory that approximates a straight line for short distances [e]
- guided shell [r]: A piece of artillery ammunition that can alter its course after being fired. [e]
- precision-guided munition [r]: A powered or unpowered weapon that adjusts its flight path to hit a specific target [e]
- vertical launch [r]: Add brief definition or description
