gun-howitzer

The Komintern was used to tow medium artillery such as the 152 mm gun-howitzer.

Into this superstructure the 25 pounder gun-howitzer was fitted.

A total of 30 rounds for the gun-howitzer and 480 rounds for the machine gun are carried onboard.

Compared to the M-30, the new howitzer had a significantly longer 35 calibre gun barrel, just short of being a gun-howitzer by Soviet definition.

It was designated a 'gun-howitzer' because its muzzle velocity exceeded 600 m/s, and barrel length greater than 30 calibres.

For example, the first British design, "Bishop", carried the 25 pdr gun-howitzer, but in a mounting that severely limited the gun's performance.

The ML-20S gun-howitzer was mounted slightly to the right of centre with a limited traverse in a range of 12 degrees.

A variation is the howitzer or gun-howitzer designed to offer the ability to fire both low or high-angle ballistic arcs.

However, the Priest used the American 105 mm howitzer rather than the British equivalent, the QF 25 pounder gun-howitzer.

It was developed to give the British Army a mobile artillery gun using their Ordnance QF 25 pounder gun-howitzer.

It is sometimes called, confusingly, a "gun-howitzer" (because it possessed characteristics of both gun and howitzer) and is discussed in more detail separately below.

The rapid manoeuvre warfare practiced in the North African Campaign led to a requirement for a self-propelled artillery vehicle armed with the 25 pounder gun-howitzer.

In the years after World War I, the tendency of guns and howitzers to acquire each other's characteristics led to the renaissance of the concept of the gun-howitzer.

As with other FATs, the CMP was usually used to tow either the 25 pounder gun-howitzer or the 17 pounder anti-tank gun.

The 18-pounder Mk IV, with its box trail which allowed it to fire in a high trajectory, had began its evolution into the more versatile 25 pounder gun-howitzer.

The licorne was a hybrid between the howitzers and guns of the era (a gun-howitzer), with a longer barrel than contemporary howitzers, giving projectiles a flatter trajectory, but longer range.

Typically it was used to pull the QF 18 pounder field gun and the 4.5 howitzer, and later the QF 25 pounder gun-howitzer which replaced those two weapons.

A result of a rushed attempt to create a self-propelled gun armed with the 25 Pounder gun-howitzer, the vehicle had numerous problems, was produced in limited numbers and was soon replaced by better designs.

At that time all ISU hulls were being equipped with the ML-20S gun-howitzer, but the production of hulls increased quickly and there was a lack of ML-20S tubes in the beginning of 1944.

Since the First World War, the word howitzer has been increasingly used to describe artillery pieces that, strictly speaking, belong to the category of gun-howitzer - relatively long barrels and high muzzle velocity combined with multiple propelling charges and high maximum elevation.

Consequently for most of the North African Campaign the army had to rely on the 2-pdr, aided by the 25 pounder gun-howitzer functioning as an anti-tank gun-a role for which it was capable though at the expense of taking it away from its main artillery role.

Ninety M7s were sent to the British Eighth Army in North Africa, who were also the first to use it in battle during the Second Battle of El Alamein as well as their own Bishop, a self-propelled gun based on the Ordnance QF 25-pounder gun-howitzer.