artillery support
Big guns helping
Artillery support is firepower provided by large-caliber guns—howitzers, mortars, rocket launchers—to assist ground troops in combat.
Infantry calls in artillery support to suppress enemy positions, destroy fortifications, or cover advances and retreats.
The term appears in military contexts and war reporting: The battalion advanced under heavy artillery support.
- field gunsTowable battlefield artillery pieces
- howitzersHigh-angle artillery weapons
- forward observersPersonnel directing remote strikes
- danger closeFire support near friendlies
- mortarsBowls for grinding
ammunition depots · suppression · liaison officers · battery · radio networks · reinforcements · reconnaissance · barrage · rolling barrage · precision strikes · thunder · interdiction · boom · cannons · roar · command posts · smoke · incoming
- combat supportcovering fire, suppressive fire, suppressing fire, medevac, resupply
- military tacticstactics, flanking, maneuver, ambush, battle formations
- Support Unitsmedical corps, quartermaster, quartermasters, medics, combat medics
- reinforcementsrelief force, reserve team, reinforcement, second wave, replacements
- amphibious warfareamphibious assault, beach landing, amphibious warfare, landing craft, amphibious vehicle
- artillerycannons, cannon, howitzers, howitzer, mortars
artillery supportclose air support
Aircraft fire aiding troops
air strikes · direct fire · hand-to-hand combat · aerial bombardment · melee combat
artillery supportradio silence
Absence of broadcast communication
artillery supportdefensive position
Fortified spot for resistance