An assault gun is a gun or howitzer mounted on a motor vehicle or armored chassis, designed for use in the direct fire role in support of infantry when attacking other infantry or fortified positions.

* OTO Melara Mod 56 is an Italian-made 105 mm pack howitzer built and developed by OTO-Melara of the mid 1950s.

In small arms, a long gun is designed to be fired braced against the shoulder, in contrast to a handgun, while in artillery a long gun would be contrasted with a howitzer or carronade.

One example of the increased firepower provided by modern mobile howitzers is the latest version, the G6-52, of the 155 mm G6 howitzer.

The M198 howitzer is a medium-sized, towed artillery piece, developed for service with the United States Army and Marine Corps.

The M198 is being replaced in US and Australian service by the BAE M777 howitzer.

The M198 is a towed howitzer that is transported tail first, with the cannon resting above the weapon's wheels.

The M102 105mm howitzer is used in air mobile ( helicopter ) and light infantry operations.

This weapon is being replaced by the M119-series 105mm howitzer.

M102 howitzer belonging to Battery A, 1-206th FA, is towed north from Camp New York, Kuwait by a M1114 Up-Armored HMMWV.

The 105-mm howitzer M102 is a lightweight towed weapon, which has a very low silhouette when in the firing position.

There are two lifting brackets to connect slings to, when the howitzer is being lifted by helicopter.

The M109 is an American-made self-propelled 155 mm howitzer, first introduced in the early 1960s.

The greatest difference is the integration of an inertial navigation system, sensors detecting the weapons ' lay, automation, and an encrypted digital communication system which utilizes computer controlled frequency hopping to avoid enemy electronic warfare and allow the howitzer to send grid location and altitude to the battery fire direction center ( FDC ).

Until recently much of the remaining internal crew space is taken up by a hydraulically powered conveyor system designed to allow the quick uploading of rounds or transfer of rounds to the M109-series howitzer.

The vehicle also contains a 2-stroke diesel powered auxiliary power unit that can power all non-automotive energy requirements on the Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicle and on the howitzer when a slave cable is used to connect the two.

These also are in artillery charge ; a divisional column is detailed to each division ( i. e. to replenish each set of brigade ammunition columns ), and the corps troops column supplies the columns attached to the heavy, howitzer and horse artillery brigades.

For tanks and artillery pieces, the extended range, full bore concept developed by Gerald Bull for the GC-45 howitzer reverses the normal rifling idea by using a shell with small fins that ride in the grooves, as opposed to using a slightly oversized projectile which is forced into the grooves.

There is a tank for the Army, a propeller for the Air Force, an anchor for the Navy, a lighthouse for the Coast Guard, and in the near future the city government hopes to add a howitzer for the Marine Corps.

A 105mm howitzer is at the memorial also, commemorating the manufacture of 105mm shells at Moore Enamelling across the tracks during WWII.

This method is commonly referred to as the " artillery hold ", in reference to the way large military artillery pieces like the M777 howitzer often recoil.

As of 5 September 2008, Patria is under investigation by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation on its vehicle project in Slovenia and howitzer project in Egypt.

The M114 howitzer can fire an M107 up to 14. 5 km using M4A2 " White Bag " propellant ; maximum range is 18. 1 km.

Both the howitzer and mortar provide this type of fire.

Big Bertha () — literal translation " Thick ( or fat ) Bertha " — is the name of a type of super-heavy howitzer developed by the famous armaments manufacturer Krupp in Germany on the eve of World War I.

The new howitzer was a road-mobile weapon mounted on a two-wheeled field type carriage of conventional, if massive, construction.

Unlike the 18 pounder, the 25 pounder used howitzer type variable charge ammunition.

In the modern era, the term cannon has fallen out of common usage, replaced by " guns " or " artillery " if not a more specific term such as " mortar " or " howitzer ".

In the taxonomies of artillery pieces used by European ( and European-style ) armies in the eighteenth, 19th, and 20th centuries, the howitzer stood between the " gun " ( characterized by a longer barrel, larger propelling charges, smaller shells, higher velocities, and flatter trajectories ) and the " mortar " ( which was meant to fire at even higher angles of ascent and descent ).

But the artillery branch was not fond of the Katyusha, because it took up to 50 minutes to load and fire 24 rounds, while a conventional howitzer could fire 95 to 150 rounds in the same time.

During the peak of the battle, ARVN had access to only one 105 mm howitzer to provide close support while the enemy attack was backed by an entire artillery division.

Other important products include the Altay main battle tank, TF-2000 class AAW frigate, Milgem class corvette, TAI Anka UAV, Aselsan İzci UGV, T-155 Fırtına self-propelled howitzer, J-600T missile, T-129 attack helicopter, Roketsan UMTAS anti-tank missile, Roketsan Cirit laser-guided rocket, Panter Howitzer, ACV-300, Otokar Cobra and Akrep, FNSS Pars 6x6 and 8x8 APC, Nurol Ejder 6x6 APC, TOROS artillery rocket system, Bayraktar Mini UAV, ASELPOD, and SOM cruise missile.

artillery gun ; 1975 ), W82 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1978 ), B83 ( modern strategic bomb ; 1979 ), W87 ( Peacekeeper / MX ICBM ; 1982 ), and W80 ( Tomahawk GLCM ; 1978 ).

* CAESAR self-propelled howitzer, a French artillery gun

The XM2001 Crusader was to be the United States Army's next-generation self-propelled howitzer ( SPH ), designed to improve the survivability, lethality, mobility, and effectiveness of the artillery as well as the overall force.

The horse artillery, howitzer and heavy brigades of artillery have each their own ammunition columns, organized in much the same way and performing similar duties.

Another early success for SRC was the sale of 30, 000 artillery shells, gun barrels, and plans for the GC-45 howitzer to Armscor of Pretoria, South Africa.

He designed two artillery pieces for the Iraqis: the 155 mm Al-Majnoonan, an updated version of the G5, and a similar set of adaptations applied to the 203 mm US M110 howitzer to produce the 210 mm Al-Fao with a maximum range of without base bleed.

They also fielded a powerful artillery corps equipped with Soviet 122 mm howitzer 2A18 ( D-30 ) and 130 mm towed field gun M1954 ( M-46 ) pieces, along with truck-mounted BM-11 130 mm and towed BM-12 ( Chinese Type 63 ) 107 mm MBRLs, coupled by Man-portable, shoulder-launched Soviet SAM-7 ‘ Grail ’ AA missiles which were used to bring down two Lebanese Air Force Hawker Hunter fighter jets during the 1983-84 ‘ Mountain War ’.

BT-7A artillery support tank was a self-propelled gun variant, armed with a 76. 2 mm howitzer.

** BT-5A: artillery support version with 76. 2 mm howitzer ( few made ).

** BT-7A: artillery support version with 76. 2 mm howitzer.

BT-7A artillery support tank was a self-propelled gun variant, armed with a 76 mm howitzer.