Sentence examples for field gun from inspiring English sources
noun
An artillery piece, originally a smaller gun that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances.
The central gallery even displays large vehicles and armaments, including a Renault FT 17 tank, two aircraft, a 75-millimeter field gun and models of the trenches.
Its heroine is "a round-ribbed blaze-faced brown," the offside horse in the leading pair of the team of six towing a field gun.
The tyres are bigger than those of many mountain bikes, while the carrier is sturdy enough bear a small field gun.
The video purportedly shows the fighters from the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham firing a 130mm towed field gun - which can fire bullets nearly 17 miles - at the Hmeymim air base near Latakia on Syria's Mediterranean coast.
The new improvements were epitomized in the French 75-millimetre field gun; it remained motionless during firing, and it was not necessary to readjust the aim in order to bring sustained fire on a target.
Her double entendres were unintentional but much loved: bending over an apprentice in Putney ("I've never seen a tool as big as that!") or declining to fire a field gun on her Falklands victory tour ("Won't it jerk me off?").
Its forces are mainly equipped with Soviet-era tanks and field guns.
A few yards away stood a display of Red Army tanks and field guns.
In the course of his career, he manufactured field guns and other armaments for countries around the world.
He had approximately 1,700 troopers, constituting three cavalry regiments — the Sixth Illinois, Seventh Illinois and Second Iowa — as well as six small field guns.
Before the French could get the field guns in action, a voice came bellowing through the loudspeaker: "The power plant has broken down.
