autocannon

English

Etymology

From 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