| They also offer a look into little-known innovations, such as precision artillery shells for howitzers developed for the US Army. |
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| Coalition special forces soldiers destroyed at least five enemy howitzers during that operation. |
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| The greatest drawback to maintaining a cannon-centric field artillery is that the howitzers ' weight reduces air transportability. |
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| Long and short range artillery, rockets, missiles, howitzers, and mortars rained fire and death from the sky. |
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| It is the primary instrument used to orient the howitzers onto the azimuth of fire. |
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| But one convoy alone, according to Lysenko, consisted of 32 tanks, 16 D-30 howitzers and 30 KamAZ heavy trucks. |
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| Flexibility in rapidly delivering ammunition to outlying firebases was crucial because mortars and howitzers were emplaced throughout the theater. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Broken-down trucks were scavenged for usable parts and left by the roadside. Artillery units cannibalised parts from captured guns to keep their howitzers operating. |
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| In PS 731, Terry Blount suggested that repairmen for howitzers and mortars keep a personal copy of TM 9-1000-202-14, Evaluation of Cannon Tubes. |
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| Deployed tactical nuclear warheads with typical yields in the kilotonne range are small enough to be fired from 155mm calibre howitzers. |
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| The International Noricum GH N-45 is the latest manifestation of the original 155 mm 45 calibre GC-45 howitzers devised by the late Gerald Bull. |
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| On the right, French cavalry attempted to support the attack but without howitzers, could not advance in level terrain, dotted with cottages used as improvised strong points. |
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| The British had 575 heavy and medium and 720 field guns and howitzers, having more than doubled the quantity of artillery available at the Battle of Pilckem Ridge. |
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| The corps artillery of each corps consisted of two batteries of 60 pounders and four batteries of 6-inch Howitzers. |
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| Howitzers and mortars are more effective because of their ability to engage targets on reverse slopes. |
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| They called German artillery shells fired from 77mm field guns whizzbangs and British trench mortars which were fired from Howitzers were toffee apples. |
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