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howitzer

[hou-it-ser] / ˈhaʊ ɪt sər /




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Getting howitzer production up and running will be a test of Ukraine’s ability to serve as a manufacturing base for top-tier foreign equipment.

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

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

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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