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6 unusual facts about Howitzer


Bangladesh Armed Forces

During mid-September six 105mm Howitzers were delivered at Assam's Masimpur district from India's Echo sector.

Bill Ireland

Ireland, wanting an award to symbolize the rivalry, obtained a replica of the Howitzer John C. Fremont had brought with him in his expedition to Nevada.

Enfield, New South Wales

The top of the pedestal displays a 105mm French Howitzer gun that was donated to the Australian Government by the French government as recognition of Australia's wartime assistance during World War I. The Memorial was unveiled on 11 October 1924 by the NSW Attorney-General and later by the Premier of NSW from 1927-1930.

Judge Holden

He is extremely tall, massive in frame, and enormously strong, capable of holding and wielding a Howitzer cannon much like a regular gun.

Martin Mill

The railway guns were 13.5" ex naval guns on WW1 mountings with a maximum elevation of 39 deg, traverse was by using the guns on a curved spur with the degrees marked along the tracks, a large arrow was mounted on the guns bogies to line up with the marks. Recoil was absorbed by special brakes acting on the wheels. Scene Shifter was later converted to an 18" Howitzer gun in November 1943.

Zombie Gunship

Zombie Gunship offers three types of weapons: a 25mm Gatling gun, a 40mm Bofors auto-cannon, and a 105mm Howitzer cannon, all of which are upgradeable to enhance damage radius, faster cooling time, faster reload, faster firing rate, and bullet speed.


359th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Originally established as an 8 inch howitzer battery, the unit was re-formed as a 12 inch railway gun battery while training at Lydd Ranges in April and May 1917.

7th Toronto Regiment, RCA

There are three batteries within the regiment, 9 Bty – the howitzer or gun battery, 15 Bty – the mortar battery, and 130 Bty – the headquarters battery as well as training and recruiting.

AS-90

Haubicoarmata "Krab" - (eng. Howitzer-cannon Crab) Licensed "Braveheart" turret on a Polish chassis UPG, with modern "Azalia" BMS.

BL 5.4-inch howitzer

The Ordnance BL 5.4-inch howitzer was a version of the British 5-inch howitzer designed for British Indian Army use, especially on the Northwest Frontier.

Canon de 75 mle GP1

Cockerill mounted lengthened Canon de 75 mle TR barrels on ex-German 10.5 cm leFH 16 howitzer carriages received as reparations after World War I. After 1940, the Wehrmacht designated captured guns as the 7.5 cm FK 233(b) and used them to equip occupation units in Belgium.

Deströyer 666

Following their debut release, Deströyer 666 had a line-up of Warslut; bassist Bullet Eater (aka Phil Gresik, ex-Bestial Warlust, Hobbs' Angel of Death, Mass Confusion); Gospel of the Horns' drummer Howitzer; and guitarist Shrapnel.

Field artillery team

Corrections can be added for conditions such as a difference between target and howitzer altitudes, propellant temperature, atmospheric conditions, and even the curvature and rotation of the Earth.

Fort Simple

The men possessed one cannon, probably a mountain howitzer (see Mountain gun).

History of numerical solution of differential equations using computers

New weapons, however, such as Germany's giant cannons, the "Paris Gun" and "Big Bertha," and the V-2 rocket, meant that projectiles would travel hundreds of miles in distance and dozens of miles in height, in all weathers.

Lancia 3 RO

In North Africa and Sicily with the top of the cab cut away and lower sideboards the Lancia 3 Ro became well suited for desert warfare serving as a self-propelled gun porting the Cannone da 90/53 as well as the 100/17 howitzer.

Limbic Software

The player can choose to use a 25mm Gatling gun, 40mm Bofors auto-cannon, and a 105mm Howitzer cannon, all of which all can be upgraded to enhance damage radius, faster cooling time, faster reload, faster firing rate, and bullet speed.

National Response Scenario Number One

It could be fired from any standard 8 inch (203mm) howitzer e.g. the M110 or M115

Percival Molson

After recovering from his wounds, he returned to the front lines with his Regiment (PPCLI) and on July 5, 1917, at the outskirts of Avion, Pas-de-Calais near Vimy Ridge in France, Captain Percival Molson was killed by a direct hit from a German howitzer.

Tauranga Campaign

The battery—the heaviest used in the wars of 1863-64—included a 110-pounder Armstrong gun, two 40-pounder and two six-pounder Armstrongs, two 24-pounder howitzers, two eight-inch mortars and six Coehorn mortars.

VFA-27

At the Al Faw peninsula long range artillery guns and 155mm howitzers near Az Zubayr were targeted.

Waiouru Military Camp

As part of a memorandum of understanding signed between the Ministry of Defence (New Zealand) and the Ministry of Defence (Singapore) since 1985, the vast live-firing range of the camp had been used by the Singapore Army for the test firing of their 155 mm howitzer guns — such as the FH-88, FH-2000, SLWH Pegasus and the SSPH Primus.


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