Low/High-Tech Military Air Guns

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Originally Posted by Anthony

Not true, indirect fire of purely kinetic projectiles has been useful since before gunpowder was invented. Archery, as used in combat, functions far more like artillery than direct fire weapons, and weapons such as the catapult are clearly artillery by any reasonable standard.

Those are still direct fire, the firing element is directly laid in on the target. They are just high-angle of fire weapons in direct lay.Those applications require either purely static or relatively static area targets in clear view of the firing element. In modern maneuver warfare they'd be much less effective.