Sentence examples for armored formation from inspiring English sources

The incursion today began when an armored formation moved from a staging area on the southern outskirts of Baghdad and roared north on Hilla Road into the city.

A refugee convoy was mistaken for a Serb armored formation, and was hit by a nato bombing; a passenger train was hit as it crossed a bridge; several hundred civilians were killed, and the images of unintended carnage were broadcast by the international news media.

Vann, who was flying above the armored formation, demanded that Ba advance immediately.

Cohesion and morale among the crews of the armored formation quickly deteriorated as South Vietnamese sergeants, who served as both commanders and machine gunners of the carriers, were killed and were replaced by less-experienced, poorly trained men.

The intent is to seal off much of the city even as American armored formations, light infantry and Special Operations forces try to attack the government inside.

Instead of fighting American armored formations in the open desert, the fedayeen seem to be positioning themselves to attack more vulnerable columns and supply trucks as they roll north.

As described, the plan emphasizes speed and overwhelming firepower: armored formations and accompanying infantry would advance into eastern Pakistan with limited goals in terms of distance and in terms of duration.

Israeli armored formations had experienced heavy losses in trying repeatedly to reach the Bar Lev Line and were disorganized and confused.

People pleaded with the soldiers to move their armored cars in a formation to prevent pro-Mubarak forces from entering.

The munitions in question — Soviet-era PTAB-2.5Ms — were designed decades ago by Communist engineers to destroy battlefield formations of Western armored vehicles and tanks.

North Vietnamese support came in the form of one artillery formation (69th Artillery Command), one armored regiment (203rd Armored Regiment), two independent regiments (205th and 101st Regiment), and one sapper unit (429th Sapper Group).