heavy artillery
Americannoun
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guns and howitzers of large caliber.
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guns and howitzers of 155-millimeters caliber and larger.
Example Sentences
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After so many poor starts in their 11 straight losses against Ireland perhaps Townsend is giving his team the best chance to stay in the hunt early on rather than keeping heavy artillery like Fagerson for later in the day.
From BBC
The garden is still filled with the remnants of war: a Soviet fighter jet, helicopters, tanks, pieces of heavy artillery and military vehicles.
From Barron's
Just like he did against Francis Ngannou, he will go in there, measure him up and then go in with the heavy artillery.
From BBC
In Perth, Ben Stokes' team unleashed their heavy artillery to devastating and exhilarating effect.
From BBC
The culmination of a plan to bring heavy artillery down under resulted in this awesome and relentless assault on the Australia batting.
From BBC
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