Definition of howitzer in English:
howitzer
noun ˈhaʊɪtsəˈhaʊətsər
A short gun for firing shells on high trajectories at low velocities.
- The first line was equipped with a number of medium howitzers, some non-reflective guns and a network of heavy machine guns carried on vehicles, in addition to antiaircraft guns.
- They also offer a look into little-known innovations, such as precision artillery shells for howitzers developed for the US Army.
- Flexibility in rapidly delivering ammunition to outlying firebases was crucial because mortars and howitzers were emplaced throughout the theater.
- In 1848, U.S. siege batteries, composed of howitzers, guns, and mortars, proved essential in the Battle of Chapultepec and the capture of Mexico City.
- We crossed quickly, followed by the rifle and the howitzer and the rearguard.
- Mountain artillery consisted of light guns and howitzers capable of being dismantled and carried piecemeal on mules, or even by men, into positions inaccessible to ordinary artillery.
- Note that I don't care whether someone is getting a handgun or a howitzer, as long as they maintain it and know how to safely operate the thing.
- They include field guns, which fire with a flat trajectory, howitzers and mortars, which have arching trajectories, antitank guns, firing high-velocity shot, and self-propelled guns.
- As the rush proceeded, the companies of Jackson and Trimble advanced with a Gatling gun and the two howitzers to the brow of the bluff and opened a brisk but ineffective fire on the retreating tribesmen.
- The greatest drawback to maintaining a cannon-centric field artillery is that the howitzers ' weight reduces air transportability.
- 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.
- For example, his five divisions had only 118 guns each - a third of the standard number; there was an almost total lack of howitzers, trench mortars, grenades and high explosive ammunition.
- To replicate realistic conditions in a combat scenario, an artillery battery should set up howitzers and conduct simulated fire missions before conducting marksmanship training.
- But because the distance was too great, the howitzer shells burst high in the air and did no damage beyond frightening the fleeing people.
- Coalition special forces soldiers destroyed at least five enemy howitzers during that operation.
- Both pilots took turns calculating the power required to safely drop off the howitzer at Bagram.
- Artillery generally falls into three basic categories; guns, howitzers and mortars.
- Long and short range artillery, rockets, missiles, howitzers, and mortars rained fire and death from the sky.
- All types of artillery were used in mountainous terrain, but mortars, mountain guns, and howitzers proved by far the most adapted to action on difficult, rugged terrain.
- For the first time since the U.S. deployment, the factions use their heavy weapons systems: howitzers, heavy machine guns, mortars, and even a few older-model tanks.
Origin
Late 17th century: from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Czech houfnice 'catapult'.
Definition of howitzer in US English:
howitzer
nounˈhaʊətsərˈhouətsər
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.
- To replicate realistic conditions in a combat scenario, an artillery battery should set up howitzers and conduct simulated fire missions before conducting marksmanship training.
- Both pilots took turns calculating the power required to safely drop off the howitzer at Bagram.
- Note that I don't care whether someone is getting a handgun or a howitzer, as long as they maintain it and know how to safely operate the thing.
- But because the distance was too great, the howitzer shells burst high in the air and did no damage beyond frightening the fleeing people.
- Artillery generally falls into three basic categories; guns, howitzers and mortars.
- As the rush proceeded, the companies of Jackson and Trimble advanced with a Gatling gun and the two howitzers to the brow of the bluff and opened a brisk but ineffective fire on the retreating tribesmen.
- For the first time since the U.S. deployment, the factions use their heavy weapons systems: howitzers, heavy machine guns, mortars, and even a few older-model tanks.
- We crossed quickly, followed by the rifle and the howitzer and the rearguard.
- In 1848, U.S. siege batteries, composed of howitzers, guns, and mortars, proved essential in the Battle of Chapultepec and the capture of Mexico City.
- They also offer a look into little-known innovations, such as precision artillery shells for howitzers developed for the US Army.
- They include field guns, which fire with a flat trajectory, howitzers and mortars, which have arching trajectories, antitank guns, firing high-velocity shot, and self-propelled guns.
- All types of artillery were used in mountainous terrain, but mortars, mountain guns, and howitzers proved by far the most adapted to action on difficult, rugged terrain.
- Flexibility in rapidly delivering ammunition to outlying firebases was crucial because mortars and howitzers were emplaced throughout the theater.
- The first line was equipped with a number of medium howitzers, some non-reflective guns and a network of heavy machine guns carried on vehicles, in addition to antiaircraft guns.
- The greatest drawback to maintaining a cannon-centric field artillery is that the howitzers ' weight reduces air transportability.
- Mountain artillery consisted of light guns and howitzers capable of being dismantled and carried piecemeal on mules, or even by men, into positions inaccessible to ordinary artillery.
- Long and short range artillery, rockets, missiles, howitzers, and mortars rained fire and death from the sky.
- For example, his five divisions had only 118 guns each - a third of the standard number; there was an almost total lack of howitzers, trench mortars, grenades and high explosive ammunition.
- Coalition special forces soldiers destroyed at least five enemy howitzers during that operation.
Origin
Late 17th century: from Dutch houwitser, from German Haubitze, from Czech houfnice ‘catapult’.