Artillery in Spain

Present and future of the weapon

Photograph taken during the first live fire exercise of the 93rd Field Artillery Group with the 118mm Light Gun L105 howitzer
Photograph taken during the first live fire exercise of the 93rd Field Artillery Group with the 118mm Light Gun L105 howitzer. Photo - Ministry of Defense of Spain

''Artillery is as old as the quarrels of men'' We owe this famous phrase to the military man and politician D. Tomás de Morla, and it is part of his treatise on artillery published in 1784. And the use of the projectile As a weapon of war it has remained unchanged from the use of Neolithic stones and spears to the complex and sophisticated missile systems of the XNUMXst century.

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