The term field artillery is distinguished from the Air Defense Artillery, and historically, from the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (with the function of coastal defense artillery), a branch which existed from 1901 to 1950.

Artillery of the United States include artillery designed, built, or operated by the United States.

American Artillery was comprised of a mixed assortment of calibers and types representative of standard black-powder bronze and iron smoothbore direct fire pieces of the day. Some pieces were cast for the Continental Army in the colonies and the rest were acquired from the French, captured from the enemy, or taken from colonial arsenals and ...

American forces captured dozens of German artillery pieces, including dozens of the versatile 88s, along with tons of ammunition in the summer of 1944 and later used some of the captured ordnance against the Germans.

Mar 4, 2018 · Artillery has always been considered to be the primary killing force in ground combat. As the United States and Russia increase their defense budgets for the new cycle of military...

Airborne forces needed small, portable artillery to offset their firepower disadvantage, and the pack howitzer met the need. Fielded in 1927, the M1A1’s four-man crew could assemble the weapon from eight parts in a few minutes.

Dec 24, 2020 · In a new test, the Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) gun fired a precision-guided shell to a range of 43 miles, or enough to shell Washington D.C. from Baltimore. The Army says the gun now...

Jan 2, 2018 · Gibbon scoured numerous treatises on artillery, synthesizing what he considered to be the best and most complete information into his one volume. His lengthy manual included material on topics like projectiles, the various types of …

Oct 24, 2017 · With nearly a half million American officers and men committed to artillery by 1918, training became a major task that the cadre of veteran American gunners could not sustain. Lack of modern equipment prevented recruits from training …

American Artillery By the 1941 the American army and Marine Corps had standardised their artillery for WW2. New designs were taking the place of the old French based weapons and 105mm and 155mm had become the calibres found in field regiments.