Sentence examples for drops of weapons from inspiring English sources

There she collected night parachute drops of weapons and ammunition and hid them in storage caches for the advancing allied armies, set up wireless communication with England and harassed the enemy.

On Sunday, the US said it had, for the first time, conducted "multiple air drops" of weapons, ammunition and medical supplies in the vicinity of Kobane.

He refers to events of the past two weeks, including a US air drop of weapons for Syrian Kurd fighters.

The media group previously released another video in late October claiming to show Islamic State militants rifling through a US military drop of weapons and aid meant for Kurdish troops near Kobane.

Massive bombing campaigns against civilians in cities culminated in the dropping of atomic weapons in 1945.

The Americans told Karzai to set the fires again, so that they could drop a shipment of weapons.

He also played a role in the secret dropping of consignments of weapons for the Resistance by Britain's Special Operations Executive.

In Syria's north-east, the US on Monday dropped 50 tonnes of weapons and ammunition to the Kurdish YPG militia, for use in its campaign against Isis.

It appears in the second frame of Astérix le Gaulois, where, in a characteristic twist, Vercingetorix manages to drop the bundle of weapons on Caesar's toe - so prompting not a victory speech, but a loud 'Ouch'.

The announcement marked an abrupt shift from Ankara's position of refusing to militarily help the Kurds of Kobani and came hours after the US military dropped 24 tonnes of weapons and medicines in the first supply run it had made to the besieged town in nearly five weeks of fighting.

The associate, South African businessman Andrew Smulian, took the witness stand for the government as part of a plea deal and testified that Bout agreed that for a downpayment of $20m he would arrange for cargo planes to air-drop 100 tonnes of weapons into Colombia.