Weapons & The First World War - Heavy Artillery

Welcome back to our Weapons & The First World War series where today we are thinking about heavy artillery. It is a term that is used often when describing wartime battles. It refers to the large calibre mounted firearms, which are typically in the form of a field gun. 

To be heavy artillery, they had to be movable as well as fire at long range. They were seen as a huge threat to not only infantrymen but tanks and other armoured vehicles as well. When you have the basic design of the field gun, you can then design the ammunition that can be placed inside. Heavy artillery was such a threat because you couldn't necessary see it before it fired at you.