field artillery

English

Noun

field artillery (countable and uncountable, plural field artilleries)

1. The part of an army's artillery which consists of (light) fieldpieces (cannons, howitzers) which are mobile enough to deploy on the (battle) field, as opposed to the fixed guns in fortifications or naval artillery; usually excludes antiaircraft.

Related terms

• field grade
• field marshal
• field officer

Translations

part of artillery

• Dutch: veldartillerie (nl), veldgeschut n
• French: artillerie de campagne f, artillerie légère (fr) f
• Irish: airtléire machaire f
• Japanese: , 野戦砲兵 (ja) (yasen hōhei), 野戦特科 (ja) (yasen tokka)
• Korean: 야전포 (ko) (yajeonpo)
• Romanian: artilerie de câmp (ro) f
• Russian: полева́я артилле́рия f (polevája artillérija)
• Ukrainian: польова́ артиле́рія f (polʹová artylérija)