light cannon
Britishnoun
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But the normal progression in armament development would be from heavy machine guns to light cannon, with higher velocities and fire speeds than those now generally mounted in aircraft.-
From Time Magazine Archive
Crew totals eight; armament includes machine guns, light cannon, bombs, depth charges.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fire-power of the break-through tanks was several heavy machine guns, plus light cannon.
From Time Magazine Archive
As nobody had anything to fight with except small arms and a few light cannon, there would be no intervention.
From Ministry of Disturbance by H. R. van Dongen
He would then have had probably over a thousand men, and light cannon with which to batter down the stockades.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt
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