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
An exercise to fire off a howitzer, an artillery weapon, was called off due to an extreme blizzard in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
Just before the fire, several units of the California National Guard had been on the island for military training exercises that included the firing of howitzer shells and mortar rounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
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
Around four o’clock, an American field howitzer, two miles away, lets fly a single improperly ranged shell.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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