Talk:Artillery

List of techniques?

A friend trained at Canada's Royal Military College. I recall him telling me there was a standard list of techniques -- hammer a fixed target, fire at moving targets like tanks, lay down a barrage to keep enemy from moving through an area, and so on. He claimed there were two techniques down at the end of the list that were considered just theoretical, put in for completeness of the catalog, until Giap used both at Dien Bien Phu. One was using a howitzer like a mortar at above 45 degree elevation; Giap had guns behind a mountain, lobbing shells over it, The other was using artillery point-blank, at 100 yards or some such range; Giap had guns in the trenches during assaults.

Do textbooks have such a list? Should it be here? Were Giap's methods really all that remarkable? Sandy Harris 09:33, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Where does counter battery fire come in? I've heard that claimed as a Canadian development in WW I, even as a invention of General McNaughton. However, it seems such an obvious thing to do that I doubt it could be that new. Sandy Harris 10:39, 18 February 2011 (UTC)