howitzers 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. Tits like howitzers.

2. These two companies were supported by two batteries of 105 mm howitzers and two armoured cars.

3. I'm gonna be so far away, you won't hear if they're shooting at me with howitzers.

4. Artillerymen of Wagner PMC in the service of Russia from Donbas to Syria – 20 mercenaries operating 2S1 howitzers identified

5. The German army had the advantage here as they began the war with many more howitzers than the French.

6. Beginning in December 1960, the Soviets flew in military supplies, beginning with a battery of 105mm howitzers.

7. The combined firepower from both turrets will give Zumwalt-class destroyers the firepower equivalent to 18 conventional M-198 howitzers.

8. Artillery, in military science, crew-served big guns, howitzers, or mortars having a caliber greater than that of small arms, or infantry weapons

9. Breechblocks went dark from heat Monday, November 9th, 2020 The road west was unfit to move howitzers by night on a fighting withdrawal, T

10. Information on modern Artillery, including self-propeleld guns, howitzers, anti-tank and anti-aircraft Artillery weapons, mortars, multiple launch rocket systems and some other types.

11. So great was the rush that they were sent before proper carriages had been developed, and the guns had to be mounted in the carriages of 25-pounder gun-howitzers.

12. Both bridges were covered by three anti-tank guns each, and the three batteries 105 mm howitzers at the Kralingse Plas were ordered to prepare barrages on both headlands.

13. In addition to Air Force assets, "Russia's 120th Artillery Brigade with six 152 mm 2A65 Msta-B towed howitzers had taken up position at a Syrian Arab Army (SAA) base just to the south of the airbase."

14. This group is about anything larger than a handgun - field Artillery, howitzers, mortars, anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns, smooth-bore muzzle loaders, rifled muzzle loaders or stone-throwing engines like balistas and trebuchets

15. Despite being designed to fire at trajectories with a steep angle of descent, howitzers can be fired directly, as was done by the 11th Marine Regiment at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, during the Korean War.

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17. The main armament was to be an 800 mm Dora/Schwerer Gustav K (E) gun, and with a secondary armament of two 150 mm sFH 18/1 L/30 howitzers and multiple 15 mm MG 151/15 autocannons.

18. In addition, a battery of four 105mm howitzers from the 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment under Lieutenant colonel James J. Keating moved to a location from where it could provide direct fire onto the ridge, and a forward artillery observer was placed with Edson's front line units.

19. Artillery has played a critical role in providing close support to the infantry, bombarding fortifications, defending coasts, and, in the twentieth century, attacking tanks and aircraft.Beginning with the initial settlements, English colonists in North America, like Europeans, employed smoothbore, muzzle‐loading, black powder, cast‐bronze cannons and howitzers.