Howitzer

Field Howitzer

Howitzer is an artillery weapon with relatively small barrel and used to throw projectiles at high trajectories.

At first these howitzers are fixed type and were not portable. They used to guard the fort walls and important building of a kingdom.

The above picture shows a howitzer battery ( pre WW1, Denmark).
Howitzers, like other artillery pieces, are usually organized in groups called batteries.

Now talking about the field howitzers, they are portable in the war fields and usually accompanied by foot soldiers who assist fire to the howitzer.

Early field howitzers used in 19th century -

The howitzers used in the world war 1 are shown below:

BL- 15 inch howitzer United kingdom 1914-1918

Big bertha - German empire- 1914-1918

Range calculation:

H= V^2 sin(a)/g

V= velocity

a= angle of elevation

g= acceleration due to gravity

H= horizontal range of the trajectory

The theoretical range is not equal to the practical range as there includes air drag and other factors which increases the air friction.

Vaccum range formula:

H=V^2 sin(2a)/g

Here is a video of howitzer used in world war 1:

Modern 21st century howitzer:

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