[ryanmarsh]

This. As a former infantryman the one thing that still strikes me with awe to this day is the destructive power of artillery. People cannot fathom what it’s capable of.

Go up in a tall building, maybe to the 20th floor or so. Eyeball a built up area 1km square. Now picture every structure reduced to rubble in an instant. Now imagine 10km square reduced to rubble in just a few minutes.

Quick work for an artillery battery.

[jcims]

Never experienced it myself but seeing those piles of shells from WWI just sends my brain to uninitialized memory.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/shells-creeping-bombardment...