Sentence examples for carry munitions from inspiring English sources

Their function was not to fight but to cook, build camps, take care of the wounded and carry munitions and messages.

They range from small tactical drones of limited endurance to much larger systems that look strikingly like US Reaper or Predator models, and just like their US counterparts some of these Chinese drones are equipped with hard-points on their wings to carry munitions.

But he said the cargo violated international rules that prohibit passenger aircraft from carrying munitions.

In 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania, a British merchant ship that was likely carrying munitions, killing 128 Americans.

Some U.S. officials indicated that the agency drones were armed while others contested that and said they were for intelligence gathering only and were not carrying munitions.

Even Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, has deployed drones, an Iranian design capable of carrying munitions and diving into a target, says P. W. Singer of the Brookings Institution, whose 2009 book "Wired for War" is a primer on robotic combat.

One of the great mysteries of the first world war – whether or not the passenger ship Lusitania was carrying munitions and therefore a legitimate target when it was sunk by a German submarine in May 1915 – has been solved in the affirmative by newly released government papers.

On the road into the city, we passed at least 50 military vehicles that were going in the same general direction: a convoy of long green buses, lorries carrying munitions, and trucks with weary-looking soldiers sitting in the back, smoking and sleeping.

"We were made aware of the allegations that the Alaed was carrying munitions destined for Syria.

Unmentioned was the fact that the ship was a reserve cruiser carrying munitions through a war zone.

Peyk-i Şevket returned to the Sea of Marmara during the Dardanelles Campaign in 1915, where she carried munitions to the defending Ottoman forces.