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Recent Examples of artillery
The fighting included fighter jet sorties, exchanges of rocket fire and artillery barrages.
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CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
In September 2024, a century-old artillery shell weighing nearly 660 pounds was cleared from a construction site near the Serbian parliament in Belgrade.
—CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
After a war of attrition settled in in November 2022, artillery became the central element.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2025
Thailand and Cambodia have engaged in daily exchanges of rockets and artillery along their 508-mile land border following the collapse of the truce, with fighting at multiple points stretching from forested regions near Laos to the coastal provinces of the Gulf of Thailand.
—Reuters, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025
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CNN Money, 31 Dec. 2025
In September 2024, a century-old artillery shell weighing nearly 660 pounds was cleared from a construction site near the Serbian parliament in Belgrade.
—CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
After a war of attrition settled in in November 2022, artillery became the central element.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2025
Thailand and Cambodia have engaged in daily exchanges of rockets and artillery along their 508-mile land border following the collapse of the truce, with fighting at multiple points stretching from forested regions near Laos to the coastal provinces of the Gulf of Thailand.
—Reuters, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025
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Ventura County deputies seized 92 pounds of drugs, hundreds of oxycodone pills and 14 guns during a narcotics bust in December.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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Video shows the group pointing guns and repeatedly knocking on an apartment door in a building near 6th Avenue and Potomac Street in Aurora, Chamberlain said during a news conference.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
10 Jan. 2026
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When Israel launched the surprise war against Iran last summer, the depth of its infiltration became evident when it was revealed that Israeli intelligence agents smuggled weapons into the country and used them to strike high-value targets from within Iranian territory.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
7 Jan. 2026
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Ole Miss has enough dangerous weapons in quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, running back Kewan Lacy and wide receivers Harrison Wallace III, De’Zhaun Stribling and Deuce Alexander to make a tired defense pay.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Artillery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artillery. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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