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Recent Examples of artillery
These weapons are not simply deterrents but tools of active combat, redefining the conventional balance between Islamabad and New Delhi by introducing high-precision standoff artillery as an operational staple in future conflicts.
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Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Engineers can fix vehicles and equipment lockers, and are often seen dangling outside the back of Humvees and chasing tanks to keep heavy-hitting artillery units in the fight.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
Moscow has mastered this attritional form of fighting, using a combination of small assault squads, first-person view drones, artillery, and glide bombs to wear down Ukrainian fortifications slowly.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
The Russian military has also employed drones to locate training areas, recruitment centers, and defense factories in towns near the front lines, which are then destroyed with missile strikes and artillery.
—Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
Engineers can fix vehicles and equipment lockers, and are often seen dangling outside the back of Humvees and chasing tanks to keep heavy-hitting artillery units in the fight.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
Moscow has mastered this attritional form of fighting, using a combination of small assault squads, first-person view drones, artillery, and glide bombs to wear down Ukrainian fortifications slowly.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
The Russian military has also employed drones to locate training areas, recruitment centers, and defense factories in towns near the front lines, which are then destroyed with missile strikes and artillery.
—Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for artillery
Noun
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Either way, the young guns blazed through the trials.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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In the 1960s, the Harvard School in Los Angeles (not affiliated with Harvard University) was a boys-only military school where students wore uniforms, marched in drills, and learned to fire guns.—
Tom Teicholz,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Advertisement What weapons did China display at the parade?—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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Venezuela's top brass pledged allegiance to Maduro, but there is likely to be burgeoning concern in the military ranks about the impact of Western sanctions and embargos, weapons pipelines and maintenance issues, Solar said.—
Ellie Cook
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Artillery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artillery. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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