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Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons. These engines comprise specialised devices which use some form of stored energy to operate, whether mechanical, chemical, or electromagnetic. Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.
V1 Buzz Bomb
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German WW2 cruise missile that was used to terrorize British towns and cities.
This thing is a beast!!! o.O
How come is this artilery?
Artillery isn't just big cannons. These early cruise missiles were used to terrorize the British by launching them from across the English Channel, bombing cities and killing people without the Germans taking a scratch.
It failed cause the allied planes turned them around.
Actually it was very successful. It killed over twenty thousand people in bombings of British towns and cities. The method of 'toppling' them in flight by Allied planes were very hard because they're much faster than the planes, so they used barrage balloons instead to protect themselves.
Well it wasn't effective since the Germans hadn't perfected the guidance on them, hence most of the time they simple just hit country side and didn't carry enough explosives to do any REAL damage, compared to the heavy bombing conducted by the Luftwaffe.. Still it was more than the allies had.
Good weapon but I prefer V2 :P
me 2 xD
I prefer V3... that thing could have launched more bombs per hour then luftwaffe dropt over London during the whole war!