Sentence examples for fire ordnance from inspiring English sources

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Attack helicopters and aircraft are also less likely to fire ordnance the closer the firing position is to the border, they said, even if it is on the Afghan side.

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Who are the men firing ordnance into this city?

And neither Obama nor the unsinkable turd that is John McCain have done any hard calculation of the actual consequences of another US intervention in the Middle East; both have taken the position that we should fire some ordnance in the vicinity of the offending weaponry, whistle Maytime, and hope for the best.

The intent is to give children alternative places to play and learn, with a view towards keeping them away from dangerous areas where they could be exposed to live fire or unexploded ordnance (UXO).

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said in Washington today that he had no information about the men "who may have been killed" or whether their deaths were caused by "ordnance fired from the air or ordnance that we've seen fired from the ground on television".

After a seesaw battle, the rebels retained control late in the day, said a rebel spokesman, who also confirmed reports that ordnance fired by Colonel Qaddafi's forces had landed in Tunisian territory, prompting a protest by the Tunisian authorities.

Police said the accident occurred at noon at the firing range of an ordnance plant near the city of Sopot in central Bulgaria.

At these ranges, lighter guns had good accuracy, and their high rate of fire delivered high volumes of ordnance on the target, known as the "hail of fire".

He said the vast majority of American and allied operations were no longer direct combat, but focused instead on three areas: dropping bombs and firing rockets, mortars and other ordnance at the enemy; engineering tasks, especially bomb-disposal and road-clearing operations; and medical evacuation.

Despite the D-1's withdrawal from service in the mid- 1970s, the OF-530 is still fired from modern 152 mm ordnance pieces of the Russian Army.

From March 2003 until mid-April of that same year, during its deployment in the Gulf, the Navy launched 16,500 sorties from its deck, and fired 1.6 million pounds of ordnance from its guns.

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