page_title: Howitzer
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: Howitzer / Examples
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Journées Nation Défense, Esplanade des Invalides, Paris, France, 24-25 septembre 2005 English: Nation/Defense days, Esplanade des Invalides, Paris, France, September 24-25, 2005
context_page_description: A howitzer is a type of artillery piece characterized by a short barrel and the use of small propellant charges to propel projectiles over high trajectories, with a steep angle of descent.
  In the taxonomies of artillery pieces used by European armies in the 17th to 20th centuries, the howitzer stood between the "cannon" and the "mortar". Howitzers, like other artillery equipment, are usually organized in groups called batteries.
caption: French TRF1 155 mm gun-howitzer
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