Assertion: artillery | /r/UsedFor | refer to howitzer
Facets:
value: in contemporary usage
type: OTHER
value: usually
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Since the introduction of gunpowder and cannon, "artillery" has largely meant cannons, and in contemporary usage, usually refers to shell-firing guns, howitzers, mortars, and rocket artillery.
text: Artillery as an aggregate of weapons refers to cannon, howitzers, artillery mortars, self-propelled gun mounts and rocket launchers, recoilless guns, and infantry mortars; all kinds of small arms, such as rifles, carbines, submachine guns, pistols, machine guns, and grenade launchers; all types of ammunition, such as cartridges, shells, and mortar shells; equipment for movement, such as self-propelled motorized carriages, wheeled and tracklaying prime movers, railroad flatcars that are used as carriages for especially heavy systems, and horse transport (still retained in certain countries); various fire-control devices and sighting equipment for terrestrial and antiaircraft artillery; means of reconnaissance and ensuring accuracy of fire, such as binoculars, stereoscopic telescopes, range finders, radar stations, computers, gyroscopic topographical surveying equipment, meteorological stations, sound-ranging observation posts, photogrammetric instruments, artillery gyrocompasses, and so on.
text: Artillery refers to large-caliber weapons, such as cannons and howitzers that are operated by crews, which can project munitions far beyond the effective range of personal weapons.