Sentence examples for firing a shell from inspiring English sources

The army is investigating whether the tank commander was justified in firing a shell, said Asaf Lidrati, an army spokesman.

Government tanks terrorized the city, in one instance firing a shell that landed 20 yards from a hospital door.

Later in the day, I saw a Syrian Army tank manoeuvre on the road before firing a shell into Wa'ar.

With major battles over and little use for field cannon that can shoot 15 miles, the unit has been running checkpoints and searching houses north of Baghdad, rarely firing a shell.

North Korea appears to have launched the first attack by firing a shell across the border.

Another test conducted somewhere around this time involved a 406 mm gun firing a shell at Tosa.

In 1993, his forces fired a shell that killed 15 civilians at a soccer game.

Palestinian survivors and witnesses said an Israeli tank had fired a shell at them.

"They fired a shell at us," he said, adding that he had been knocked unconscious.

In 1916 both countries adopted the 16-inch gun, which fired a shell of approximately 2,100 pounds.

The combination of these two techniques was sufficient to fire a shell that would land close to the target.