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artillery

[ahr-til-uh-ree] / ɑrˈtɪl ə ri /


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Howitzers are put together from metal subsystems, such as the barrel, the breech mechanism the shell is loaded into and hydraulics that reduce recoil when artillery fires.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

One result is that a 155mm artillery shell usually includes components from half a dozen countries.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Highly flammable when treated with acid, it acts as a propellant, triggering a violent expansion of gas needed to launch artillery up to 70 miles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Another Turkish company designed and installed equipment at a factory in Texas that is now one of the Pentagon’s largest suppliers of globally scarce artillery rounds.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

I walked by the side of the Mill Pond, which smelled of rotting weeds and fish, gulls clustering above it, screeching at the sea-winds, their cries punctuated by the detonation of artillery.

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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