Eli5: How are artillery aimed?

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I don’t understand how they can accurately aim artillery. When they fire the whole machine moves a great deal and it would seem any calibration of its position would be lost.

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Something id also like to add here: nowadays we use gps guided ammunition.

The shells have a guiding package and little wings. The guidance package has a lot of sensors and a computer that calculates the trajectory and the necessary adjustments.

To demonstrate its effectiveness: before, a 150mm would hit in the general area of the target. You target a house in a city? Might aswell hit the house next to if, or any other one in a 100m radius (rough estimate). Nowadays a guided shell can precisely hit one house in a city

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