SH> Rockets aren't artillery.  For that matter, the LAAW isn't a rocket.  It 
is
SH> a missile.
SH> 
SH>  SH> Artillery is, by definition, an indirect fire weapon.  
SH> 
SH>  GP> How about 105's loaded with fleshettes?
SH> 
SH> The 105 Recoilless Rifle never fired flechettes, per se.  It fired a 
olid
SH> projectile that -exploded- into anti-personnel fragments.  From what I
SH> remember (the 105 -was- on its way out as obsolete as I was going in), 
this
SH> was -still- an indirect fire weapon.
Steve,
As a proud member of the Order of St. Barbara, I can say, with some surity 
that you are wrong on several points here. 
First, a missile is *any* weapon or other object that is designed to be 
thrown, fired or launched toward a target.
Second, indirect fire is one way that artillery may be used, but 
anti-aircraft artillery and anti-tank are both direct fire roles with the 
German 88mm gun being a good example of both.
Third, anyone that has had the doubious pleasure of being the recipient of 
attention from "katyusha" or MRLS bombardments cares little for the 
technical distinction that they are not fired from a gun. Even this 
distinction is blurred when one considers the 152mm  shillelagh dual 
purpose gun which was capable of firing either conventional munitions or a 
nifty wire guided missile.
Finally, the LAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon) with its cardboard tube and 
plastic, flip up sight, may not have impressed too many people with its 
capabilities, but it *was* a rocket.
jackson
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