Artillery by type

thumb|285px|Test firing at the United States Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in January 2008. The fireball is a result of pieces of the projectile shearing off during launch and igniting mid-air.

thumb|right|275px|A L16 81mm Mortar|81mm L16 smoothbore mortar

thumb|Simplified diagram of a multistage coilgun with three coils, a barrel, and a ferromagnetic [[projectile]]

Zamburak (, ) was a specialized form of self-propelled artillery from the early modern period featuring small swivel guns mounted on and fired from camels. Its operator was known as a zamburakchi. It was used by the gunpowder empires, especially Safavid Iran, the Timurid Empire, Afsharid Iran, and the Afghan Durrani Empire, due to the ruggedness of the Iranian plateau, which made typical transportation of heavy cannons difficult.

military branch specialized in employing mobile artillery moved by horse teams

thumb|Torsion springald in Roberto Valturio's De Re Militari (1472) A springald, or espringal, was a torsion siege engine device for throwing bolts in medieval times. It is depicted in a diagram in an 11th-century Byzantine manuscript, but in Western Europe is more evident in the late 12th century and early 13th century. It was constructed on the same principles as an Ancient Greek or Roman ballista, but with inward swinging arms and threw bolts instead of stones. It was also known as a 'skein-bow', and was a torsion device using twisted skeins of silk or sinew to power two bow-arms.

artillery class capable of a high rate of fire for its given caliber

class of artillery mounted on aircraft

wooden artillery

class of artillery designed to operate in direct support of infantry