howitzer
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Ukraine has reached an agreement to domestically manufacture the L119 lightweight howitzer designed by U.K. defense company BAE Systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
At 1:46 p.m., an artillery round from an M777 howitzer was launched from White’s Beach northward, according to a CHP incident report obtained by The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
The demonstration was the largest in a decade in the continental US, the Marines said, and involved fighter jets, Navy vessels, helicopters and live fire from a towed howitzer.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
To the layman, a self-propelled howitzer looks like a tank, but it has a bigger, 155mm gun to fire at longer range.
From Salon ● May 19, 2024
I stepped aside to allow passage for a bustle of men who dragged a wooden howitzer.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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