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- Although the Birch gun was a general purpose artillery piece on an armoured tracked chassis, it was capable of elevation for anti-aircraft use.
- On 23 October 1944, his car, travelling at night under blackout conditions, collided with a towed artillery piece coming out of a side road.
- ... a truck to tow the artillery piece and transport the gun crew and baggage).
- He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.
- A field gun is a field artillery piece. Originally the term referred to smaller guns that could accompany a field army on the march, that when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances (field artillery), as opposed to guns installed in a fort (garrison artillery or coastal artillery), or to siege cannons and mortars which are too large to be moved quickly, and would be used only in a prolonged siege.
- This made it difficult for American units to destroy a Japanese artillery piece.
- The M198 is a medium-sized, towed 155 mm artillery piece, developed for service with the United States Army and Marine Corps.
- Vickers produced their first armour plate in 1888 and their first artillery piece in 1890.
- The power of the shaped charge meant that the effectiveness of the weapon was not limited by a gun barrel bore nor size of weapon as for example a conventional armor-piercing shell from an artillery piece.
- The gun combined all the properties that make up an effective artillery piece.
- The 128 mm PaK 44 anti-tank field artillery piece of 1943 that Krupp adapted for arming the "Maus" as the "Kampfwagenkanone (KwK) 44" retained, in parallel to the Porsche project, its original anti-tank "Panzerabwehrkanone" family designation of PaK 44 when mounted in the casemate-style Jagdtiger tank destroyer.
- Airborne explosive devices without propulsion are referred to as shells if fired by an artillery piece and bombs if dropped by an aircraft.
- Since it was intended as a self-propelled artillery piece rather than a true tank destroyer, the SU-152 was generally issued with standard HE rounds rather than armor-piercing projectiles.
- Between the two World Wars, the United Kingdom developed the Birch gun, a general-purpose artillery piece on an armoured tracked chassis capable of maintaining formation with their current tanks over terrain.
- Since World War I, the word "howitzer" has been changing to describe artillery pieces that previously would have belonged to the category of gun-howitzers – relatively long barrels and high muzzle velocities combined with multiple propelling charges and high maximum elevations.
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