Artillery
Artillery is a class of heavy military ranged weapons built to launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during sieges, and led to heavy, fairly immobile siege engines. As technology improved, lighter, more mobile field artillery cannons developed for battlefield use. This development continues today; modern self-propelled artillery vehicles are highly mobile weapons of great versatility generally providing the largest share of an army's total firepower. Originally, the word "artillery" referred to any group of soldiers primarily armed with some form of manufactured …
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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
actual chemical agents. Soviet I » ** 4 H artillery units are regularly equipped with various kinds …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
Soviet Missile Troops and Artillery Day (19 November) by Marshal of Artillery P Kuleshov, in Izvestiya …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents relating to Soviet influence in Africa. Subjects covered in the file include Soviet economic aid to Uganda; the possible establishment of diplomatic relations between Lesotho and …
ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS, 33 TANKS AND SOME 24 ARTILLERY P I E C E S . ( E ) A D D I T I O N A L L Y …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 French
A file of correspondence and reports concerning East-West economic relations. The documents cover the lifting of U.S. trade sanctions affecting the construction of a Siberian pipeline to bring gas to …
technology, such as highly H developed metals for artillery, and the access enjoyed by H Austrian companies …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
was ushered into an office and introduced to an Artillery Lieutenant Colonel who,'I think, said he was … USHERED INTO AN OFFICE AND INTRODUCED TO AN ARTILLERY LIEUTENANT COLONEL WHO, I THINK, SAID HE WAS … A RECCE ON FOOT OF THE AREA AROUND THE TANK-ARTILLERY GARRISON AT STRASICE, EAST OF PL ZEN, CARTER …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
STAND AND FIGHT, THEY WERE ATTACKED WITH HEAVY ARTILLERY, BM-21 ROCKETS AND MORTAR F I R E , FOLLOWED …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
ARMOURED DIVISION WITH 15 000 MEN SUPPORTED BY ARTILLERY. |T WAS CLEAR THAT THE US WOULD LIKE TO COMPLEMENT …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of correspondence concerning political relations between East Germany and countries in the Far East. The documents cover a tour of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia by the East German …
use of optical instruments, hand weapons and artillery, radio equipment, road- building machinery and …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of documents concerning the Katyn Massacre of 1940. Subjects discussed in the file include the publication of an article by a Soviet military historian restating the Soviet view …
delegates who went to Katyn was a canoneer of the artillery division, Ya Moroz, and cornet in the sapper …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
152 mm wheeled SF gun has been sighted in an artillery barracks in North Bohemia where it was reported … three medium range tactical Sir: brigades, an artillery division and a supporting air army it is a force … Defence Maj Gen Ing. Pavel FI GUS 38) Chief of Artillery and Rocket Troops MND Lt Gen Ing. Miroslav PELOUSEK … 152 mm wheeled SF ,gun has been sighted in an artillery barracks in North Bohemia where it was reported … three medium range tactical SSA brigades, an artillery division and a supporting air army it is a force …
