曲きょく射しゃ砲ほう

noun

howitzer; high-angle gun

Military term for artillery designed to fire shells at a high trajectory, enabling indirect fire over obstacles.

• 曲きょく射しゃ砲ほうは山やまの向むこう側がわの目もく標ひょうを攻こう撃げきできる。

  A howitzer can attack targets on the other side of a mountain.