#cannon

• Artilleryman — A soldier specialized in operating, aiming, and maintaining artillery pieces (cannons, howitzers, mortars); an artilleryman or gunner. In historical texts and ancient military documents, the term designated a heavy ordnance operator within a garrison or battlefield.
• Artillery pieces — An archaic plural form for artillery pieces or, in a rare literary sense, an obsolete collective term designating the firearms (cannons) used by an army. It can also represent an early historical or regional variant associated with the logistics of heavy batteries prior to modern military vocabulary standardization.
• Artillery pieces — An ancient or regional plural form used to designate the entirety of artillery pieces or heavy firing units within an army. In administrative documents of past centuries, the term defined the firearms allocated to a division or fortification prior to the modern standardization of military linguistic inflections.
• Artillery — A branch of the army equipped with large-caliber firearms (cannons, howitzers, launchers, rocket systems); the entirety of these weapons and their associated combat equipment. Tactically, it represents the science and technique of using heavy weaponry to execute long-range strikes in support of other troop types.
• Artilleryman — A soldier who belongs to an artillery unit or who specializes in operating, aiming, and firing an artillery piece (cannon, howitzer, launcher). Broadly, the term designates any combatant trained in applied ballistics and the operation of long-range heavy weaponry.