MODERNSE SUURTÜKIVÄE ARENG 20. SAJANDIL JA VÄLJAVAATED 21. SAJANDIL
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ARTILLERY IN THE 20TH CENTURY AND ITS PROSPECTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: These past ten years in Ukraine have again actualised intensive military conflicts and the importance of artillery. This article1 follows the development of artillery from World War I to the current full-scale war in Ukraine. The focus is on more significant technical and tactical innovations that had great impact on the evolvement of artillery during that era. The comparison and analysis of such innovations leads the author to a distinction of generational categories in the development of indirect fire. We can clearly distinguish four stages in the development of artillery. In this article, we discuss three of the four generations of fire support that comprise contemporary artillery. I have left out the first generation, i.e. the period of linear tactics and direct fire, because this mostly falls to the era before World War I.

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