Social Sciences and the Law

What kinds of artillery are still in existence?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/kinds-artillery-still-existence-80480.html" >What kinds of artillery are still in existence?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Now that few pieces of fixed artillery (e.g., coastal defense guns) still survive, artillery is generally classified as either towed or self-propelled. Artillery was characteristically smoothbore and muzzle-loaded, firing solid, round shot, until the latter part of the 19th cent., when breech-loaded, rifled, and shell-firing artillery became standard.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about artillery . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: When did breech–loaded artillery become standard? Are there any coastal defense guns left? What is classified as towed or self–propelled? What is smoothbore artillery? What kind of ammunition did artillery use? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

A funny kind of deterrence.(India and Pakistan's nuclear programs hide poverty...
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...depict the woes of human existence on the Indo-Pakistan...casualty, heavy-artillery border clashes after...year, and their troops still exchange fire with alarming...Indian army chiefs. Still, running parallel to...stars and singers are still as much adored by the...
Last Stand; Near Petersburg, A Forgotten Civil War Site Has Been Hewn to Please
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...ago. That's one kind of retreat. But...of the day trip kind of retreat. I packed...rifles, uniforms, artillery shells, handsome...some of the finest still in existence. During the siege...that we came to an artillery redan with a Confederate...
The old barbarism and the new.(comparison of Nazi Germany and World War II to...
Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension ...biological struggles for existence. But they also did...Western historians are still reluctant to concede...a master at this kind of operation based...planes, tanks and artillery. Moreover, the Soviet tanks and artillery proved to be more...
Obituary: Berkely Mather
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London ...enlisted in the Royal Horse Artillery, failed to gain a commission...serving in the Royal Artillery until he retired in 1959...the early 1950s, while still in the army, he had...short fiction of the kind Mather could supply with...script was already in existence, and Mather lightened...
Q&A with Lt. Gen. Joseph F. Weber Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces...
Magazine article from: CHIPS ...got to fight and win in any kind of conflict. That kind of flexibility and breadth...Marine Corps throughout our existence, and our 'trademark' task...clear. Potential enemies are still mass-producing artillery pieces, tanks, amphibious...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.