Sentence examples for counter battery from inspiring English sources

He is getting information from his executive officer back at Bermel and giving orders to the artillery there to prepare a counter battery.

This in turn means that even if the POO site is observed, and a counter battery is fired, the chance of killing the person who orchestrated the attack is minimal.

A Counter Battery Staff Officer (CBSO) was appointed at each corps to co-ordinate the counter battery effort, collating reports from sound ranging and Royal Flying Corps observers.

Instead, the artillery assisted by neutralising the German artillery with Counter battery fire.

The XXII Corps was supported by the majority of the Yildirim Army's heavy artillery for counter battery operations.

Utilizing flash spotting, sound ranging and aerial reconnaissance from No. 16 Squadron, and No. 1 & 2 Balloon Company of the Royal Flying Corps in the week before the battle, the counter battery artillery under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew McNaughton fired 125,900 shells, harassing an estimated 83% of the German gun positions.

At first, these consisted of the obvious and expensive expedients of counter-battery fire.

Over the next several hours, 127 high-explosive rockets or mortar rounds in all would be fired on the American positions, including 111 that were directed at Margah, according to the counter-battery radar records.

He says he acted because American aircraft were having trouble finding the targets, while American ground forces in Albania had counter-battery radars and other targeting systems able to pinpoint the source of Serbian fire.

By 1918 French and British forces had mastered the techniques of the "all arms" battle combining aircraft, tanks and, above all, highly accurate counter-battery artillery fire that became the template for manoeuvre warfare for the next 50 years.Many of these books concentrate on the years leading up to the war and the first cataclysmic months that determined much that came later.

A report by a group including Ivo Daalder, a former US ambassador to Nato, and Strobe Talbott, the veteran Russia expert, identifies the equipment needed: "counter-battery radars to locate long-range rockets, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), electronic countermeasures for use against opposing UAVs, secure communications capabilities, armoured Humvees and medical support equipment".