Sentence examples for howitzer fire from inspiring English sources

The marines' attack began with 155-millimeter howitzer fire at 6 25 p.m. as dozens of Super Cobra helicopter gunships rattled toward their targets.

Now, I have heard howitzer fire in Washington before.

Five shells fired from the YPG-controlled Afrin region of Syria, west of where the air strikes hit, landed in empty land in Turkey's Hatay province on Thursday, triggering retaliatory howitzer fire from Turkey, the Turkish military said.

The oldest of their five children — Michael — had been killed two nights earlier on a hilltop near a village in Vietnam called Tu Chanh, a victim of what the government called "friendly fire," his heart pierced by shrapnel from a misdirected howitzer blast fired by an American artillery unit nearby.

One 155 mm howitzer fired from Komam-ni to the area north of Chungam-ni, the route for the NK 6th Division's supplies.

Before it landed, another of the battery's howitzers fired the first of its suppression rounds to disrupt the enemy's air defenses.

The first large shell guns from Paixhans' design, chambered howitzers firing a 62.5-pound (28.5-kg) shell (thicker-walled than bombs to penetrate before exploding) was tested in 1824 against a moored frigate with remarkable accuracy and incendiary effect.

In 1850, round solid shot and black powder were standard ammunition for guns, while howitzers fired hollow powder-filled shells ignited by wooden fuzes filled with slow-burning powder.

In October the advancing Third Army began to bombard the harbor with 28-centimeter (11 in) siege howitzers, firing at random.

From 1800 1830 three batteries of German 210mm howitzers fired on La Ferté with supporting fire on the fort's surroundings from 155mm howitzers.

The 4.5-inch howitzers fired on targets beyond the barrage, augmented by the guns of the two destroyers, firing from the Mediterranean Sea.