field gun

noun

1. a gun specially designed for service in direct support of front-line troops

Example Sentences

The cover illustrates the field guns embedded in the mountain with a moonlit ocean and a couple of fighter planes buzzing the area.

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Eritrean troops have pounded Tigray with artillery barrages from across the border and captured the Tigrayan town of Shiraro, where recent satellite images showed hundreds of marching soldiers and lines of artillery field guns.

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The state gun carriage is a field gun carriage that has been in the care of the Royal Navy since 1901, when it was removed from active service for the funeral of Queen Victoria.

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The Nordic state on Sunday also decided it would supply Ukraine with helmets, bulletproof vests and first aid equipment and gave Estonia permission to donate Ukraine field guns previously owned by Finland.

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As he spoke, an emplacement of mobile field guns in the greenery close by fired off repeated volleys.

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