The word "howitzer" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun meaning a type of large firearm that fires shells at a low angle with a high trajectory over long distances. You can use it when discussing military equipment or artillery. Example sentence: The battalion used the powerful howitzer to fire upon the enemy's position.
The Swiss government is, in stages, handing over papers relating to payments made by Bofors into various Swiss bank accounts after the howitzer deal, and the BJP will turn that into a big election issue.
The clever orphaned youth, who had made friends with Auden and MacNeice at Oxford, and Christopher Isherwood soon after, proceeded to have a wild, hedonistic time in Weimar Germany the time of Isherwood's Sally Bowles with golden-haired boys, many of them "howitzer fodder" for the next decade.Like many other young men of the left, he then became caught up in the Spanish civil war.
The U.S. Copperhead is a laser-guided artillery projectile fired from a conventional 155-millimetre howitzer.
Early designs in that conflict ranged from the 170-millimetre German Minenwerfer ("mine thrower"), which was almost a scaled-down howitzer, to primitive muzzle-loading devices manufactured from rejected artillery shells.
One was the 98-ton howitzer that shelled Liège and Verdun.
For airborne assault operations, the CG-4 could carry 13 fully armed troops, a jeep, and several soldiers or a 3-inch (75-mm) pack howitzer and crew.
In military science, the term is often limited to cannon larger than a howitzer or mortar, although these latter two types, like all tube-fired artillery pieces, also fall within the general definition of a gun.
During World War I the firm gained special international significance by the manufacture of heavy guns such as the 16.5-inch (420-mm) howitzer "Big Bertha" and the long-range gun that in the spring of 1918 bombarded Paris from a distance of about 75 miles (120 km).
Although crude, the trench howitzer, the unwieldy ancestor of the modern mortar, was employed by the armies of Napoleon and the North and South in the American Civil War.
A gun was a cannon designed to fire in a flat trajectory, a howitzer was a shorter piece designed to throw exploding shells in an arcing trajectory, and a mortar was a very short piece for firing at elevations of more than 45°.
Beginning in the 1960s came the gradual adoption of lightweight materials, culminating in the introduction by the British Vickers firm of a carriage built of titanium, which allowed a 155-millimetre howitzer to be helicopter-lifted.
