Examples of using Howitzers in English and their translations into Hebrew
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The men have decided to name the howitzers.
The first modern howitzers were invented in Sweden towards the end of the seventeenth century.
Looked like a full squadron and a battery of howitzers.
These howitzers were equipped with 1,200 high explosive(HE) rounds, but these were incapable of penetrating tank armor.
A Battery, which formed the entire artillery support for the task force,was armed with six 105mm howitzers.
Its 54th Siege Battery was equipped with 8 inch howitzers and its 55th Siege Battery with 9.2 inch howitzers.
Through the 1930s, Komatsu also produced tractors for the Japanese military, as well as bulldozers,tanks and howitzers.
This is particularly true in the armed forces of the United States,where gun-howitzers have been officially described as"howitzers" for more than sixty years.
While well-designed and built by 19th century standards, these fixed defences with their sunken artillery turrets had been rendered obsolete byrecent advances in heavy siege artillery howitzers.
You might be aware the new stealthdestroyer USS Zumwalt has two 155-millimeter howitzers, 80 vertical launch missile silos, and a pair of rapid-fire 30-millimeter cannon.
Thus, as gun-howitzers replaced both guns and howitzers, words such as"obusier"(French) and"Haubitze"(German), which had originally been used to designate weapons with relatively short barrels, were applied to weapons with much longer barrels.
In contrast to contemporary mortars, which were fired at a fixed angle and were entirely dependent on adjustments to thesize of propellant charges to vary range, howitzers could be fired at a wide variety of angles.
In the early 20th century, the introduction of howitzers that were significantly larger than the heavy siege howitzers of the day made necessary the creation of a fourth category, that of"super-heavy siege howitzers".
In contrast to contemporary mortars, which were fired at a fixed angle and were entirely dependent on adjustments to thesize of propellant charges to vary range, howitzers could be fired at a wide variety of angles.
Because of this, military authorities saw no point in obtaining rifled field howitzers to replace their smoothbore counterparts but, instead, used rifled field guns to replace both guns and howitzers.
In the mid-19th century, some armies attempted to simplify their artillery parks by introducing smoothbore artillery pieces that were designed to fire both explosive projectiles and cannonballs,thereby replacing both field howitzers and field guns.
By the early 20th century, the differences between guns and howitzers were relative not absolute and generally recognized as follows: Guns- higher velocity and longer range, single charge propellant, maximum elevation generally less than 35 degrees.
The Bofors scandal of 1987 damaged bilateral relations and led to the defeat of India's Congress Party in general elections two years later. The scandal was exposed by Swedish and Indian journalists; their investigations revealed that several officers of the noted Swedish armaments manufacturer Bofors, together with Swedish government officials, had paid large kickbacks to senior Indian politicians to secure thesale to India of 410 Haubits FH77 howitzers and related supplies.[8].
The onset of trench warfare after the first few months of FirstWorld War greatly increased the demand for howitzers that gave a steep angle of descent, which were better suited than guns to the task of striking targets in a vertical plane(such as trenches), with large amounts of explosive and considerably less barrel wear.