Although current military operations are much different from those of the past,  where concentrating indirect firepower on enemy formations was part of the routine, artillery has not lost any of its importance. However, while the number of systems involved is obviously smaller, as artillery fire missions are mostly aimed at small targets which have to be hit with surgical precision in order to limit collateral damage as much as possible, the mobility requirements have skyrocketed.

Read more in armada International's issue 1/2010