Weaponology is a Family Tree of the weapons used in modern day combat. Throught history many advancements have been made to create the battle of human versus human an even a deadlier fight, these advancements improve the precision and accuracy of that weapon type forcing the leaders to use different tactics and also create their own unique strategy that cannot always be used for a certain battle. The structure of this article will cover the most well known weapons and help many people learn the origin and what many of the weapons are used for and also there is an awesome epic show that is no longer being made that covers some of the most important and influential weapons to date, although my article is covering some things things this show talks about this going in more depth, and going to cover different weaponologies.

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Artillery's weaponology can be traced to as early as the Romans with there Ballista Scorpion ,the Ballista was a weapon used in a stationary placement, that used a long arrow to hit their targets, they where used in volleys to hit their mark. Moving forward in the time line to China, the Chinese created gun powder around 850 A.D. in which they used in a variety of things such as fireworks. Turns out that fireworks make for good rockets and the Chinese soon started to use the rockets in many of their battles. Moving forward to Europe when the cannon became know, the Cannon was widely used on many different battlefields. With the age of industrialism well on its way to progress, the cannon was improved with the mobility and firepower. By this time the cannons were loaded on to ships and used as a naval weapon, this is another form of artillery still used today although it is still called artillery many people refer to it as a naval bombardment. By the time World War I started artillery had greatly improved with recoil control, the use of forward observation posts and higher caliber shells. The war had made it even deadlier with the use of gases that are deployed by firing artillery shells packed with chemicals. The First World War brought out some of the worst things that artillery is capable of doing but however it made the leaders on the battlefield rethink their strategies best suited for their battle. It was not till the Second World War that the Artillery really took off, the Germans created an anti-aircraft gun that was devastating in the air and as well as on the ground. Its name was the flak 88.

This gun could e mounted on pretty much anything except people, animals, and aircraft; although it was notorious for being mounted on their Tiger tanks and King Tiger tanks. The thing that made this weapon great and its down fall was that it had a flat trajectory fire base meaning it did not have an arch to it, you shoot at the target it will hit it, you aim up at a target hoping it will dip down it will just go strait. Have you ever heard of Big Bertha? It is a giant Rail based Artillery piece that required two train tracks to travel on, even though the ones used in the second world war were assembled out of the scraps from the first world war it still had an operating crew of about 44 men and this gun was designed for fear because it was very inaccurate however it packed a huge shell (419mm). Now the Allies had a great toy called the 105mm Howitzer that was the back bone for the offensive and defensive battles these where able to be pulled by a M3 Half-track or a troop transport. The crew would consist of a group of three to four men, the mst effective way to hit a single target is by having them grouped togehter to fire in sequenced volleys, for exmaple battery one, three, and five would fire while battery two, four, and six reload; and so on. Another good thing about this gun is that is that it had the capablities to be mounted on a tank also called a Priest which was a mobile artillery platform, since this gun was universal, the Allies could use all the same shells and not have to worry about the different shell sizes.

The use of Artillery can vary in the modern day, from flattening a defensive line to being so precise by zeroing in on a single target miles away. Much has changed from the indirect fire of a cannon on a 18th century battlefield, improvements such as the longer barrel and the payload of the shell. The use of the load monsters is to support the men fighting on the ground, the use can vary from defending a position to the offensive lines to help cover advancing troops. think of this if you were defending against a platoon (44 combat ready men) of enemies would you rather stay and be killed or retreat back and let the artillery guns upon the hill take them out?

Ahh, the Rifle, the most usefull and the most changable weapon category. Being in the early 17th century the rifle was used as a