Glossary ยท 35 terms # Gunnery terms Everything a gun does: damage, penetration, accuracy, dispersion, reload and the shell types behind them. 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B [ BloomGunnery The widening of the aiming circle caused by moving, traversing or firing, and the reason a gun's paper accuracy is rarely what a player experiences. ](/glossary/bloom.md) ## C [ CaliberGunnery The diameter of a gun's shell in millimetres, which sets what armor it can overmatch as well as roughly how hard it hits. ](/glossary/caliber.md) ## D [ Damage per minuteDPMGunnery Damage per minute: how much a gun deals over a sustained exchange, alpha multiplied by how often it can fire. ](/glossary/dpm.md)[ DispersionGunnery The size of the aiming circle at any moment, which grows with movement and shrinks as the gun settles. ](/glossary/dispersion.md) ## G [ Gun arcGunnery The horizontal span a gun can cover without turning the hull, on vehicles that have no rotating turret. ](/glossary/gun-arc.md)[ Gun depressionGunnery How far below horizontal a gun can point, which decides whether a vehicle can shoot over a crest without exposing its hull. ](/glossary/gun-depression.md)[ Gun elevationGunnery How far above horizontal a gun can point, which matters for shooting uphill and at vehicles on higher ground. ](/glossary/gun-elevation.md)[ Gun handlingGunnery The combination of accuracy, aim time and dispersion penalties that decides whether a gun hits what it is pointed at. ](/glossary/gun-handling.md) ## H [ HEATGunnery A shaped-charge shell with high penetration that ignores distance entirely, but is defeated by tracks, screens and any spaced armor it detonates on. ](/glossary/heat.md)[ HESHGunnery A high explosive variant with much higher nominal penetration, which behaves like HE when it fails to penetrate. ](/glossary/hesh.md)[ High explosiveHEGunnery A shell that explodes on contact, dealing reduced damage through armor it cannot penetrate and splashing everything nearby. ](/glossary/high-explosive.md) ## I [ Intra-clip reloadGunnery The short delay between two shells of the same magazine, which sets how fast a burst is delivered. ](/glossary/intra-clip-reload.md) ## M [ MagazineGunnery A set of shells a gun can fire in quick succession before a long reload, the mechanism behind autoloaders and autoreloaders. ](/glossary/magazine.md)[ Maximum firing rangeGunnery The distance beyond which a shell simply disappears, 720 metres for most guns and further for artillery. ](/glossary/max-range.md)[ Module damageGunnery The separate damage value a shell applies to modules and crew members, which is what decides whether a hit tracks, breaks or wounds. ](/glossary/module-damage.md) ## P [ PenetrationGunnery How much armor a shell can defeat, in millimetres, rolled plus or minus 25 percent on every shot and compared against the effective thickness it hits. ](/glossary/penetration.md)[ Premium ammunitionGunnery The higher-penetration round available on nearly every gun, bought with credits and named after the days when it cost gold. ](/glossary/premium-ammo.md) ## R [ Rate of fireROFGunnery How many shells a gun can fire in a minute, the reciprocal of its reload time. ](/glossary/rate-of-fire.md)[ ReloadGunnery The time between one shot and the next being ready, or for a magazine gun the time to refill the whole magazine. ](/glossary/reload.md) ## S [ Server reticleGunnery A second crosshair showing where the server thinks the gun is pointing, which is what the shot is actually resolved against. ](/glossary/server-reticle.md)[ ShellGunnery One round of ammunition, carrying its own damage, penetration, velocity and behaviour against armor. ](/glossary/shell.md)[ Shell velocityGunnery How fast a shell travels, in metres per second, which decides how far ahead of a moving target you have to aim. ](/glossary/shell-velocity.md)[ Sniper modeGunnery The zoomed view down the gun sight, as opposed to the third-person arcade view the game starts in. ](/glossary/sniper-mode.md)[ SplashGunnery The blast area of a high explosive shell, which damages everything within it whether or not the shell penetrated. ](/glossary/splash.md) ## 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