Artillery guns can either be towed or self-propelled, and can be armoured or unarmoured. Artillery guns typically operate as a unit, or ‘battery’, and are intended to deliver salvo fire against an area target. not man-portable) of a calibre greater than 57 mm which are designed for indirect fire and capable of hitting targets at a considerable range (Ferguson et al., 2015). In this report, the term ‘artillery gun’ is used to refer specifically to self-propelled, towed, and emplaced guns (i.e. A boy examines a house damaged by an artillery attack (photo credit: Reuters).Īrtillery guns are designed to provide fire support for armour and infantry forces by firing munitions at greater distances than small arms and light weapons.

It is part of a series of technical studies on explosive weapons undertaken by the GICHD, providing evidence and contributing to the analysis of the final report on Characterisation of Explosive Weapons (GICHD, 2017).

This study examines the characteristics, use and effects of heavy artillery.

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