I love old artillery, our town has a couple of howitzers from the Civil War on the Town Common. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Q Mike, there was a story in The Washington Post today that the Kuwaitis are thinking about buying howitzers from the Chinese and that Vice President Gore sent the Kuwaitis a letter. ❋ ITY National Archives (1997)
A part of this effort is military -- the US is pumping in howitzers and small arms, helicopters and training planes. ❋ Unknown (1961)
One month earlier, another memo spoke of worries that Yemen's defence ministry planned to buy a shipment of small arms and heavy artillery ammunition, sniper rifles, anti-aircraft guns and howitzers from a Serbian arms dealer Slobodan Tesic, who was on a UN travel ban list. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The case dates back to 1985 when India ordered howitzers from a Swedish company called Bofors. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Army’s 4th Infantry Division is “the Army’s first digital division”; its “tanks, Bradleys, Humvees, Paladin howitzers, and helicopters are equipped with Pentium-powered Appliqu ‚ àö √ † + computers that talk to one another on a wireless network using the same TCP/IP protocols as the rest of us. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"Jack Johnsons," so-called howitzers -- I have never heard such a noise. ❋ Isaac Alexander Mack (N/A)
Both the big guns and the howitzers were the deciding factors in most of the military decisions reached during the war. ❋ Richard Joseph Beamish (1895)
In the 1990s, China became Myanmar's most important trading partner, according to Amnesty International, providing more than $2 billion in weapons and military equipment, including tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery pieces such as howitzers, antitank guns and antiaircraft guns, some sold at below-market prices. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It results from this that although guns of great length are capable of throwing projectiles with small charges, it is possible to use shorter pieces for this purpose -- such as howitzers for curved shots and mortars for vertical ones. ❋ Various (N/A)
Equipment such as howitzers and helicopter blades or shipping containers and pallets arrives for redistribution. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Amnesty International (AI), which conducted an in-depth study of China's own arms exports found that, since 1998, China has regularly provided the brutal ruling junta of Myanmar with "military equipment, including tanks, armored personal carriers, and artillery pieces such as howitzers, anti-tank guns, and anti-aircraft guns," and was Myanmar's largest military trading partner during the 1990s. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So in this scenario which presumably was modeled on one of these “community organizer” meet-and-discuss gatherings, he found that (a) he was the second-least competent person in the room, and (b) his guys came to strum the voilin strings of victim-hood, and the opposition came with machine guns, howitzers, and laser-guided ordnance to settle an argument. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The first approach is relatively cheap and easy to deploy - researchers envision spraying small metallic particles or sulfur into the stratosphere, which could be accomplished with jets or even World War II-era howitzers - but this would do nothing to address the root causes of climate change or some of its worst effects, such as ocean acidification. ❋ Juliet Eilperin (2010)
Although Washington had advised taking only the most essential artillery, Braddock hauled along four 12-pounders, four howitzers, and two 6-pounders, and the men carried 100 cartridges each. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)
The heaviest were the artillery, including four 12-pounder naval guns mounted on wheeled carriages, six 6-pounder field guns, four 8-inch howitzers, and fifteen Coehorn mortars; each 12-pounder weighed over a ton. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)
Washington talked to the Cherokees, who claimed that the French were bringing howitzers to attack Fort Loudoun. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)
But that is a naive viewpoint - tanks and howitzers aren't very effective against terrorists, and they will be useless when the first cyberwar starts. ❋ Unknown (2010)
