Howitzers in a sentence

The German army was well equipped with howitzers, having far more at the beginning of the war than France. citation Many howitzers introduced in the course of World War I had longer barrels than pre-war howitzers.

Because of this, military authorities saw no point in obtaining rifled field howitzers to replace their smoothbore counterparts but, instead, used rifled field guns to replace both guns and howitzers.

Photo by Ernest Brooks Howitzers can fire at maximum elevations at least close to 45°; elevations up to about 70° are normal for modern howitzers.

Though usually fired at the relatively high angles of fire used by contemporary siege howitzers, these field howitzers were rarely defined by this capability.

Thus, as gun-howitzers replaced both guns and howitzers, words such as "obusier" (French) and "Haubitze" (German), which had originally been used to designate weapons with relatively short barrels, were applied to weapons with much longer barrels.

Thus, at the same time armies were taking howitzers of one sort out of their field batteries, they were introducing howitzers of another sort into their siege trains and fortresses.

US M198 gun-howitzer As heavy field howitzers and light siege howitzers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries used ammunition of the same size and types, there was a marked tendency for the two types to merge.

Copenhagen, Denmark — Denmark said Thursday it would donate 19 French-made Caesar howitzers to Ukraine, including some still on order, following a slew of pledges of heavy weapons from Kyiv’s Western allies.

The ABC reports the Albanese government has confirmed its response to the review will include slashing infantry fighting vehicles from 450 to 129 and cancelling a planned second regiment of self-propelled Howitzers.

The United Kingdom is dispatching Wildcat and Apache attack helicopters to Estonia to participate in Spring Storm, while France sent AMX-10 RC armored fighting vehicles and Caesar self-propelled howitzers.

The U.S. may not have boots on the ground in Ukraine, but it's got damn near everything else: armored personnel carriers, howitzers, air defense systems and anti-tank weapons, just for starters.

We are trying to hit their howitzers, while they are trying to hit ours.

French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said will soon be able to deliver 78 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine and will boost its supply of shells to meet Kyiv’s urgent needs for ammunition.

The company secured a deal, valued at 8.2 trillion won, to supply Poland with hundreds of K9 howitzers and Chunmoo rocket launchers in 2022.

The military agency added that Ukrainian losses also include 12 motor vehicles, seven howitzers, a counter-battery warfare station and seven field munitions depots.

Static defenses included a powerful collection of weapons, including dozens of heavy guns and howitzers and 580 machine guns.

The scratch force had just over four hundred officers and men, plus a few 105-millimeter howitzers from attached artillery battalion.

Anadolu Agency said howitzers pounded the town Wednesday after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the start of a Turkish military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria.

In addition to monthly Guard drill, every summer until his retirement from the Guard in 1990, Bill attended a two-week camp to train soldiers on Howitzers and other weaponry.

The heaviest fighting was reported around the town of Tal Abyad, where the main ground attack, involving battle tanks and heavy howitzers, was under way.