List of artillery

A list of artillery catalogues types of weapons found in batteries of national armed forces' artillery units.

Some weapons used by the infantry units, known as infantry support weapons, are often misidentified as artillery weapons because of their use and performance characteristics, sometimes known colloquially as the "infantryman's artillery" [p.38, Margiotta] which has been particularly applied to mortars. [Fowler, W., ‘Mortars—The Infantryman's Artillery’, Defence, 17/8 (Aug. 1986).]

The distinguishing feature of infantry support weapons from artillery weapons is in the unit that provides the personnel for the weapon crew.

The list does not differentiate between guns and cannons although some designations use one word or the other. The word "cannon" is of Latin origin, borrowed into the English language from the French, while "gun" appears to be of German language origin and is found in earlier use in England. There is almost universal use of gunner in the English language to refer to artillery personnel, and not the French term "cannonier" [originally an engineer that managed the cannon, CAN, Johnson] . Some English speaking armies do use the originally French term bombardier as a rank in artillery units.

For a list by country of origin, see also list of artillery by country.

Mortars

Heavy mortars

"For infantry mortars see" List of infantry mortars

Heavy mortars are weapons designed to provide relatively short-ranged indirect artillery fire from a simpler system than field guns.

Anti-tank guns

elf-propelled anti-aircraft guns

elf-propelled guns, gun-howitzers and howitzers

Rockets

Artillery rockets

See also multiple rocket launcher, Katyusha, ballistic missile.

"Calibre of rocket projectiles may not refer to warhead size but to launch tube"

Naval guns

Naval guns are manufactured based on the same principals as the land based artillery ordnance, but differ signidicantly in system design and use. Never referred to as "artillery" it is however often called upon to provide naval artillery fire support to the land forces operation in the coastal region within their range.

Citations and notes

References

* Margiotta, Franklin D., "Brassey's Encyclopedia of Land Forces and Warfare", Brassey's, 1997
* Johnson, Samuel, "A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar", v. 1, A-D, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805
* Zaloga, Steven J., James Grandsen (1984). "Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two", London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-606-8.

See also

* Artillery
* List of artillery by country
* List of World War II artillery
* List of naval guns
* List of weapons
* List of tank main guns

Infantry support weapons
* List of Grenade Launchers
* List of recoilless rifles