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the god of war that argues every point with a thousand pounds of explanation
means Heavy mounted guns and cannon used in warfare, along with the troops and craft of operating them.
from From Old French 'artillerie,' meaning equipment or munitions of war, built on the verb 'atillier,' to equip or arm. The deeper root is uncertain — some trace it to Latin 'ars' (art, skill, the same source as 'artisan'), others to a presumed Latin 'apticulare,' to fit out. Either way the original sense was broad: all the engines and gear of war, from catapults to crossbows, long before gunpowder narrowed the word down to thunder and iron.
- casualty king
- Caused most battlefield deaths in both World Wars
- saint patron
- Saint Barbara protects gunners and the doomed
- range record
- Paris Gun shelled the city from 75 miles away
- math heavy
- Gunnery requires trigonometry, weather, and Earth's rotation
- old roots
- Predates gunpowder as catapults and siege engines
paris gun — german wwi howitzer that shelled paris from 75 miles away in 1918
tsar cannon — 16th century russian bronze cannon in the kremlin, largest bore diameter ever cast
big bertha — krupp howitzer used by germany in wwi, could penetrate 4-foot steel armor
schwerer gustav — nazi germany's largest gun in wwii, fired 7-ton shells at sevastopol in 1942