Sentence examples for fire tank from inspiring English sources

But as General Powell spoke, violence by both sides continued with gunfire, mortar fire, tank fire and roadside bombings.

The general said that he could hardly fire tank cannons on people — and that anyway this chaos was the work of foreign forces wanting to destabilize Egypt.

For a brief moment, Washington politics intruded into a world in which automatic weapons fire, tank fire and explosives rock the streets.

"Unfortunately, we have many more elaborate regulations for how we spend money than for how we fire tank ammunition," said one senior Defense Department official.

The general said that he could hardly fire tank cannons on people and that anyway this chaos was the work of foreign forces wanting to destabilize Egypt.

Or sitting in a Hercules transport plane as the interior lights turned off, replaced by a lone red hazard light as the pilot executed a steep descent to the runway to avoid enemy fire; tank turrets flickering with flames after rocket-propelled grenade warheads exploded; a market stall dangling off the end of a barrel as a tank motored through the empty streets of Amara.

Training ranges have also been set up in Kosovo where troops can fire tanks, machine guns and other weapons.

The Israelis also fired tank shells, the army said.

So they were firing tank shells into a heavily built-up area, blind.

In the Tuffah district, another poor neighborhood of Gaza City, the Israelis fired tank shells into a house, witnesses said.

In response, Israeli soldiers fired tank shells toward the source of the fire, hitting Syrian mobile artillery units, the spokesman said.