howitzer in English

noun
1
a short gun for firing shells on high trajectories at low velocities.
By the end of the war he had a million men, two-thirds of whom had not yet seen action, and new machine guns, artillery including howitzers , with growing numbers of shells and even wireless supplies.

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1. T-122 - This Egyptian conversion was a self-propelled howitzer armed with a 122 mm D-30 howitzer in a heavily modified turret.

2. Aircraft will lift multiple loads, including a lightweight field howitzer and associated equipment.

3. Cannon, big gun, howitzer, or mortar, as distinguished from a musket, rifle, or other small arm

4. 1:35 Scale Modelkit of the U.S. M4A3E8 Sherman with 105mm Howitzer and M1 Dozer Blade.

5. An Marine Corps Field Artillery Cannoneer (MOS 0811) is a member of the Field Artillery Howitzer Battery (Field 08)

6. A Marine Corps 105-mm howitzer firing on Japanese positions on Bougainville, circa November–December 1943 (80-G-205283)

7. The Alecto is equipped with the Ordnance QF 95mm Howitzer, a gun based on the QF 3.7 inch AA Gun

8. Artillerymen manning the m777 lightweight howitzer, raise the barrel toward the sky right after placing the gun in their firing zone at combat center's lavic lake

9. Still in use today, the M198 is, in turn, being slowly replaced by the M777 Ultralightweight howitzer, which weighs nearly half as much and can be more easily moved.

10. KV-2 (334) – A heavy assault tank with the M-10 152 mm howitzer, the KV-2 was produced at the same time as the KV-1.

11. Definition of Artilleryman : a soldier in the artillery Examples of Artilleryman in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web An Artilleryman could spot a howitzer at the ready.

12. (French Artillery was always pointed toward Germany - even in practice.) The Big Bertha was a German 420mm howitzer, named for a family member of the Krupp Arms manufacturer.

13. THE HIVE WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT The remaining reels in the film will be devoted to Teddy chasing you with a 5·9 howitzer for jeopardizing his Connubial happiness.

14. The Americans installed eight batteries, which included one 32-pound gun, three 24-pounders, one 18-pounder, three 12-pounders, three 6-pounders, and a 6-inch (150 mm) howitzer.

15. The largest Artillery pieces employed by the Army against Axis forces was the M1 240mm howitzer, which could fire 360-pound shell out to a range of 23,000 meters (14.3 miles)

16. In air assault operations, it can move a squad of 11 combat troops or reposition a 105 mm M119 howitzer with 30 rounds ammunition, and a four-man crew in a single lift.

17. Breech loader Factory • Howitzer Factory • Jaeger Encampment • Lancer Stables • Rifleman Range: Progressive Era: Armored Car Factory • Conscription Office • Ordnance Factory • Sniper Camp • Tank Factory: Modern Era: Battle Tank Factory • Heavy Weapons Center • Mechanized Artillery Factory • Mechanized Infantry Barracks

18. The Aureate light, streaming on, beat full upon the howitzer and on the living and unwounded of its men. THE LONG ROLL MARY JOHNSTON Here and there the falling golden leaves of a pomegranate made an Aureate glow on the red-brown earth

19. ) And for a finishing touch, I paid $15 to have the howitzer Barrel sandblasted at a local monument company, ( grave stone markers ) and then sent the Barrel to a local Plating company to have it triple brass plated, which cost an additional $150.

20. The captured vessels comprised one River Monitor (H) Howitzer version (MON), one LCM (6) landing craft, and two LCVPs taken from the South Vietnamese Navy (VNN), plus two Hurricane Aircat airboats captured from the US Special Forces by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) in September 1967 and one US Navy LCU-1466 that accidentally entered Cambodian waters in July 1968; in addition, ten Thai civilian fishing junks were apprehended after being washed ashore along the coast due to inclement weather.