field artillery

American  

noun

1. artillery mobile enough to accompany troops in the field.

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field artillery British  

noun

1. artillery capable of deployment in support of front-line troops, due mainly to its mobility

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Etymology

Origin of field artillery

First recorded in 1635–45

Example Sentences

Carter, a field artillery officer by training, also happens to be a defensive disrupter.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 4, 2023

Military records confirm that Fierro served as an Army field artillery officer from 1999 to 2013, deploying three times to Iraq and once to Afghanistan.

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2022

In any event, the report issued in January simply recommended that she be transferred out of her field artillery unit to another military specialty, which had been her intention all along.

From Salon • May 8, 2022

Coffman also thinks back to having seen old Soviet dome-style tanks lined up, and British field artillery cannons rusting away, in an area of the country near Kandahar that Alexander the Great invaded.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2021

The audience is patched in to the direct reports from a field artillery battery in New Jersey’s Watchung Mountains.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow