What is "light guns"

Usage examples of "light guns".

Against you is a force of only ten thousand, with light guns, exhausted after a week's forced marching, short of food and fodder and damned near dying of thirst.

A few hundred meters out to sea, the cutter stands, its light guns silent for now, their smoke long since drifted away.

Camouflaged pits filled not with arlaks but with chagors, light guns packed hub-to-hub and spewing fire.

Such a system as the latter was familiar to Swedish King Gustav's gunners, who had such on some of his light guns, but it adds complexity to the design.

Teams of heretic infantry had hauled the light guns forward, and if their shot was only half as heavy as the Guard’.

Now the Wehrmacht made a habit of posting the light guns as far forward as possible, to hold helicopters at bay.

The light guns the merchantmen mounted made them as useless in a real battle as their hulls were vulnerable.

The spasmodic coughs and grunts close by were obviously all that remained of the frigate's puny broadside of 14 light guns.

Close upon fifty lives were lost in the adventure, together with half-a-dozen boats stored with ammunition and light guns.