Large-calibre artillery

See also: List of the largest cannon by caliber
Adolf Gun, a Nazi German cross-channel firing gun

The formal definition of large-calibre artillery used by the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) is "guns, howitzers, artillery pieces, combining the characteristics of a gun, howitzer, mortar, or rocket, capable of engaging surface targets by delivering primarily indirect fire, with a calibre of 76.2 mm (3.00 in) and above".[1] This definition, shared by the Arms Trade Treaty and the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, is updated from an earlier definition in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 46/36L, which set a threshold of 100 mm (3.9 in).[2] Several grammatical changes were made to that latter in 1992 and the threshold was lowered in 2003 to yield the current definition, as endorsed by UN General Assembly Resolution 58/54.[1]

Historically, large-calibre weapons have included bombards and siege guns.

  1. ^ a b Casey-Maslen et al. 2016, p. 81.
  2. ^ Casey-Maslen et al. 2016, pp. 81, 83.