The phrase "artillery pointing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in a military context to describe the act of aiming or directing artillery fire towards a target.
Example: "The soldiers were trained in artillery pointing to ensure accurate strikes during the operation."
Alternatives: "artillery targeting" or "artillery aiming".
At a US special forces base nearby, troops were constructing earth berms for protection, their artillery pointed at Isis positions below.
But the Communist state does possess an array of short- and medium-range missiles, as well as artillery pointed towards South Korea, says the BBC's Kevin Kim in Seoul.
During the war, it was an artillery point from which Bosnian-Serbs would fire guns into the city below.
It stood at a promontory known as the Rocky Point, and later as Artillery Point, Fort Fullerton and the Master Attendant's Office.
It also has 1.1m soldiers, three-quarters of them stationed within 60 miles (100km) of the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas, and 10,000 artillery pieces pointing towards Seoul.
Coulman had been responsible for directing artillery fire, pointing a laser range-finder at a target, obtaining a grid, an altitude, a direction and GPS coordinates, before sending down a fire mission.
"No commander in the field would launch an operation without one of these being up in the sky first," said a British artillery sergeant pointing at the new Thales Watchkeeper pilotless plane, due into service with the Royal Artillery the year after next.
A massive amount of artillery is pointed toward Seoul, home to half of South Korea's population.
The two Koreas have more than one million troops on their border and the North has thousands of artillery tubes pointed at Seoul.
TOKYO — In what would be a sweeping overhaul of its cold war-era defense strategy, Japan is about to release new military guidelines that would reduce its heavy armored and artillery forces pointed north toward Russia in favor of creating more mobile units that could respond to China's growing presence near its southernmost islands, Japanese newspapers reported Sunday.
