autocannon

autocannon

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ cannon

Noun

autocannon (plural autocannons or autocannon)

1. A fully automatic projectile weapon similar to a machine gun, but firing shells instead of bullets and larger in calibre.

Translations

weapon

Chinese: Mandarin: 機砲／机炮, 機炮／机炮 (jīpào) Finnish: konetykki (fi) German: Maschinenkanone f Indonesian: meriam otomatis Japanese: 機関砲 (ja) (きかんほう, kikanhō) Kazakh: автоматты зеңбірек (avtomatty zeñbırek) Korean: 기관포(機關砲) (ko) (gigwanpo) Maori: pūteretere Persian: توپ خودکار‎ Portuguese: canhão automático m Russian: автомати́ческая пу́шка f (avtomatíčeskaja púška) Vietnamese: pháo tự động (炮自動)

See also

• chain gun