Talk:Weapon/@comment-29684190-20191005171847/@comment-27144409-20191019191819

Terminology can be a little subjective, contrtadictory, and just plain confusing. Also estoteric in true meaning. And even then despite how anal retentive andbeuracratically enthusiastic militaries can be, they might not have exact terms. For example, there's no actual hard distinction between tactical and strategic nuclear warheads. All the little minute details and acronyms that are such similar things, and they can't make a distinction for those terrors that would spell the final "great" war.

Anyway, with my civilian understanding of what constitutes artillery, I'd say that without knowing the actual size of the Amity exclusives,* only the missiles, the ship's heavy cannon, and the massive Dust cannon on the mech are big enough to be classified as artillery in this day and age. But another funny thing about classification is where you mount it. If those were mounted on tracks or fixed on land, they might count, with the former two being less likely to be counted as artillery.

I had to adjust the heading title since on a gunship, a .50 cal minigun is not quite enough to count as heavy weaponry.

If you want to check out modern artillery, here are some links.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M109_howitzer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery#MRSI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur