Sentence examples for gunnery from inspiring English sources

The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), an agency with near Olympian powers which ran the nuclear programme, selected a government-owned bombing and gunnery range in Nevada partly because winds would blow "radiological hazards" away from Las Vegas and Los Angeles towards "virtually uninhabitable" land downwind to the west, home to ranches and Mormon communities.

And to cut a long story short, after regrouping once they had done their service during the second world war (Sir Andrew venturing into both gunnery and marriage) they were able to work out what was going on.Their main finding was that a nerve impulse, now known as an action potential, is caused by the movement in opposite directions across the axon's surface membrane of sodium and potassium ions.

The seas are just too vast, even with their technology and gunnery skills, for fighting ships to get to vessels before the pirates board and capture them.

Yet aviation history is littered with the wrecks of unmanned-aircraft projects—some of them barmy, others simply too far ahead of their time that were given a variety of names, including "aerial torpedo" and "remotely piloted vehicle".Occasionally UAVs found a valuable niche, for instance as targets for anti-aircraft gunnery.

The coaches, gleaming with teak and brass, had once languished, dilapidated, as a tailor's premises in Shrivenham, which sold uniforms to graduates of an anti-aircraft gunnery course.

In the northwest corner of the county are parts of the vast Nevada gunnery and air force ranges.

On his 47th birthday he dined 15 captains in his flagship and outlined his plans to bring on a "pell-mell battle" in which British gunnery and offensive spirit would be decisive.

Cousteau served in World War II as a gunnery officer in France and later was a member of the French Resistance against the German occupation of the country.

In 1906 the Royal Navy under the reformer Sir John Fisher launched HMS Dreadnought, a battleship whose size, armour, speed, and gunnery rendered all existing warships obsolete.

By 2001 local protests had mounted against the navy's use of a portion of the nearby island of Vieques for its maneuvers, including gunnery and bombing practice, and the federal government, bowing to public pressure, announced plans to halt the bombing.

He continued his interest in gunnery after the war and in 1933 became director of naval ordnance.