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large firearms (as cannons or rockets) during the brutal artillery attack families hid in their cellars

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Recent Examples of artillery Training manuals for North Korean artillery have been translated into Russian, in a sign of both the ubiquity of the weapons and the increasing interoperability between Moscow’s and Pyongyang’s armed forces. Will Ripley, CNN Money, 11 July 2025 The weapons now headed for Ukraine include 155mm artillery rounds and the GMLR rockets used by HIMARS launchers, the official said. Justin Fishel, ABC News, 9 July 2025 Building up artillery ammunition stocks is high on the to-do list for both NATO and the European Union. Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025 Last week the Pentagon froze some shipments of critical weapons to Ukraine, including Patriot missile interceptors and 155 mm artillery shells, at a pivotal moment in Kyiv’s war with Russia, Fox News confirmed. Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for artillery

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“Artillery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/artillery. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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