field artillery

Wheeled battlefield guns

Field artillery refers to mobile cannons and similar heavy weapons designed to support ground troops in battle, as opposed to fixed fortifications or naval guns.

The guns are mounted on wheeled carriages or tracked vehicles, allowing repositioning as combat situations change.

Field artillery units fire explosive shells at enemy positions from behind friendly lines: The field artillery opened up at dawn, softening the enemy defenses before the infantry advanced.

military

howitzer

Short-barreled artillery piece

cannonLarge mounted gun
batteryPortable electricity storage
barrageSustained, overwhelming attack

bombardment · shelling · gunnery · ordnance · salvo · firepower · munitions · trajectory · targeting · elevation

siege

fortification

Strengthening defenses or nutrients

breachBreaking of agreement
bastionFortified defensive position
rampartFortified defensive wall

parapet · trenches · emplacement · bombardment · demolition · blockade · battery · sapper · entrenchment · counterbattery

Categories

weaponsknife, gun, sword, swords, rifle
artillerycannons, cannon, howitzers, howitzer, mortars
American WWIdoughboys, General Pershing, Argonne, Western Front, over there
Civil War gearmusket, rifle, bayonet, canteen, knapsack
Victorian weaponsrifle, musket, revolver, pistol, bayonet
WWII Army101st Airborne, 82nd Airborne, armored divisions, airborne divisions, All Americans

Opposites

weapon system type

field artillerysmall arms

Handheld military weapons

infantry weapons · hand-to-hand combat · melee weapons · bayonets · sidearms

combat domain

field artillerynaval artillery

Shipborne heavy weaponry

anti-aircraft artillery · aerial bombardment · air power · naval gunfire

mobility/deployment type

field artillerycoastal batteries

Seaward-facing defensive artillery

Family

field, fields, battlefield, fielder, artillery, fielded, fielding, fieldwork, artilleryman

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