• Field guns – capable of long range fire
• Gun howitzers – capable of high or low angle fire with a long barrel
• Howitzers – capable of high angle fire See more

Early modern era
Early artillery was unsuited to the battlefield, as the extremely massive pieces could not be moved except in areas that were already … See more

Fire aimed at disabling or destroying enemy guns is known as counter-battery fire.
Removing the threat posed by enemy artillery is an important objective on the battlefield. Most of the time enemy batteries are too far … See more

• Battle of Castillon
• Battle of Fort Sumter
• Siege of Vicksburg
• Battle of Chaldiran
• First Battle of Panipat See more

Modern field artillery (i.e. post-World War I) has three distinct sections: All batteries have a Fire Support Man (Forward Observer), Fire Direction Control (FDC), and Cannoners (Gunner).
The FOs are forward with the infantry (in support role) where … See more

FDCs also exist in the next higher parent battalion that "owns" two to four artillery batteries. Once again, an FDC exists at the U.S. Army brigade or USMC regimental level that "owns" the battalions. These higher level FDCs monitor the fire missions of their … See more

• Circular error probable - metric used to assess precision of a given field artillery piece
• Field Artillery Branch (United States)
• Field artillery in the American Civil War
• Swedish field artillery (early 18th century) See more