In an age of smart bombs and tactical missiles, tube artillery remains the most cost-effective means of rapidly delivering large amounts of munitions on a target within a 50-kilometer (31-mi) range fan.rnSince World War II, the battlefield environment has dictated that field artillery pieces become more mobile and more survivable on the battlefield. As tactical doctrine evolves in the post-Cold War world, self-propelled artillery pieces are evolving into true weapon systems, capable of autonomous or near-autonomous operations on the modern asymmetric battlefield.
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