Gunnery

(n.) That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.

Thesaurus Entries

archery, artillery, ballistics, casting, chucking, firing, flinging, heaving, hurling, jaculation, lobbing, missilery, musketry, pitching, projection, rocketry, shooting, skeet, skeet shooting, slinging, throwing, trajection, trapshooting