Users cannot manually aim Artillery and MLRS launchers.
Personally, this reduces their usefulness because despite what the Artillery computer says is the "Minimum Range", in ArmA 2 i have manually aimed the Howitzer cannon at targets closer than the Artillery Computer will allow to take out targets numerous times.
Adding the ability to manually aim the Cannon/Launcher also adds a larger sence of realism to the game. Some ArmA 2 servers (Including some of my previous ones) have had the Artillery Computer disabled to increase realism/reduce the amount of people bombarding the map.