Napoleon: 'God is on the Side with the Best Artillery'

摘要

An ability to focus accurate fires from indirect firing weapons on priority targets still defines the "Best Artillery". Adding the ability to shoot-and-scoot to survive counter-battery fires, ensures battlefield domination. Heavier, complex self-propelled howitzers were once preferred over lighter artillery. This changed during the past five years. Heaviness is not the only parameter making indirect firing weapons the "King of the Battlefield". Lighter and more mobile howitzers performed better than heavier legacy systems by the US Army during a "shoot-off" of systems.