artillery
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Air support and artillery can take out a target at a distance, but troops on the ground have to call up the chain to use them, and that often involves waiting, Grieco said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Howitzers are put together from metal subsystems, such as the barrel, the breech mechanism the shell is loaded into and hydraulics that reduce recoil when artillery fires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Towed artillery is easier to hide among trees and camouflage, and doesn’t give off the same heat signature, making it easier to hide from drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
TNT, the explosive material in artillery shells, is also scarce and Europe now has just a single factory that makes it, in Poland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Soon she started barking—a sound slighdy louder than an artillery gun—like she needed to go for a walk.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing artillery
A Long Walk to Water
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The Things They Carried
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World War I
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