CHIEF MORRIS GIVES A FIELD ARTILLERY DEMONSTRATION. The Field Artillery is one of the Army's combat arms, traditionally one of the three major branches (with Infantry and Armor). It refers to those units that use artillery weapons systems to deliver surface-to-surface long range indirect fire. Indirect fire means that the projectile does not follow the line of sight to the target. The term field artillery is to distinguish from the Air Defense Artillery, and historically, from the U.S. Army Coas

A little history from the Fires Bulletin and a short clip of what is now a museum piece: The M18 Field Artillery Digital Automatic Computer (FADAC), known as “Freddie,” FADAC was the first battery fire direction computer. Weighing approximately 200 lbs., it was transistorized, solid-state electronic digital computer for automatic computing and displaying of firing data. It was capable of providing firing data for a battery of any type of field artillery weapons, including mortars, guns, howitzer