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Artillery operation

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bombardment
A bombardment is an attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft on fortifications, combatants, or cities and buildings.
circular error probable
an intuitive measure of a weapon system's precision
gun carriage
artillery component
barrage
artillery tactic
fire-control system
device which assists use of a weapon by location, tracking, and direction of fire at a target
indirect fire
weapons firing without line of sight on target
observation post
position from which soldiers can watch enemy movements
counter-battery fire
military battlefield-tactic employed to defeat the enemy's indirect fire elements
caisson
two-wheeled cart for carrying ammunition, also used in certain state and military funerals
direct fire
trajectory of a projectile
shoot-and-scoot
thumb|The AN/TPQ-37 radar can detect hostile artillery fire and direct friendly units to fire back, necessitating fire-and-displace tactics for defence. thumb|The AMX 30 AuF1, a [[self-propelled gun in service in the French Army, one possible tool for the shoot-and-scoot tactics.]] right|thumb|The modern PzH 2000 of the [[German Army with shoot-and-scoot ability can fire between 10 and 13 rounds per minute.]] Shoot-and-scoot (alternatively, fire-and-displace or fire-and-move) is an artillery tactic of firing at a target and then immediately moving away from the location from where the shots we
plunging fire
form of indirect fire, gunfire fired at a trajectory such as to fall on its target from above
artillery sound ranging
method of finding the location of a hostile large gun, using data derived from its firing sounds
Ship gun fire-control system
type of analogue fire-control system
director
computer that continuously calculates trigonometric firing solutions
Quaker gun
fake gun; deception tactic that was commonly used in warfare during the 18th and 19th centuries
Gun laying
process of aiming an artillery piece or turret