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artillery that lobs death over hills, because shooting straight is for amateurs.
means A short-barreled artillery piece that fires shells on a high, arcing trajectory, letting it drop rounds onto targets behind hills or fortifications instead of firing flat and direct.
from From the Czech 'houfnice,' meaning a catapult or sling for stones — itself from 'houf,' a crowd or heap. Hussite fighters in the 15th century used these weapons against massed troops, and the word traveled into German as 'Haubitze,' then was anglicized into the satisfyingly clunky 'howitzer.' So a name that sounds purely martial actually started as a word for a 'crowd-pelter.'
- name origin
- From Czech word for a catapult-style siege engine
- arc not aim
- Fires high so shells drop behind cover
- range
- Modern guns hit targets 40 kilometers away
- god of war
- Stalin called artillery the god of war
- recoil force
- A single shot can shove the gun backward feet
m109 paladin — self-propelled 155mm howitzer used by us army since 1994, fires 40km range
pzh 2000 — german 155mm howitzer, considered one of most advanced, range 40km