Sentence examples for calibres of from inspiring English sources

Bore diameters were again reduced, this time to calibres of about.30 inch, or 7.5 to 8 millimetres.

Guns with tapering calibres of 28/20, 41/29, and 75/55 millimetres were developed, but wartime shortages of tungsten led to their abandonment after 1942.

In September 1942 the.50 Browning AN/M2 heavy machine gun began to replace both calibres of the Vickers machine guns and the Boys anti-tank rifle.

Most historians also cite advantages in fire control; at long ranges guns were aimed by observing the splashes caused by shells fired in salvoes, and it was difficult to interpret different splashes caused by different calibres of gun.

The size of the gun peaked in the 1880s, with some of the heaviest calibres of gun ever used at sea. carried two 16.25-inch (413 mm) breech-loading guns, each weighing 110 tons no British battleship would ever carry guns as large.

The calibre of actors was ridiculous: David Haig, Sian Thomas, Jane Asher.

Blizzard is a new calibre of entrant.

"We have the right calibre of squad.

The high calibre of his research won him wide recognition.

And the calibre of play has clearly improved.

Not least because of the calibre of the producers involved.