Sentence examples for guns artillery from inspiring English sources

Residents said the Israelis also used machine guns, artillery and missiles.

American machine guns, artillery, attack helicopters and aircraft, firing munitions throughout much of the day, stopped the advancing fighters short of an outpost they apparently had hoped to overrun.

Rival forces loyal to the president, Salva Kiir, and to the vice-president, Riek Machar, had battled each other using anti-aircraft guns, artillery attack helicopters and tanks since Thursday, almost five years to the day after South Sudan declared independence from Sudan with promises of aid and support from world powers.

The customary ways of looking back on war too easily allow us to confuse the two: military cemeteries with the gravestones in ranks like soldiers on parade, parades themselves, statues (which are almost invariably of generals), and war museums and their exhibits of tanks, planes, machine guns, artillery pieces and other technology for meting out death.

The Italian estimate of rebel strength was around 3,000 armed with machine guns, artillery and anti-aircraft guns.

He said the contras also need other heavy weaponry such as machine guns, artillery, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.

Antiaircraft gun, artillery piece that is fired from the ground or shipboard in defense against aerial attack.

A typical rifle battalion of a rifle division consisted of 370 officers and men organized into three 78-man rifle companies and machine-gun, artillery, mortar, and service units.

The mortar, machine gun, artillery, and rifle fire destroyed several trucks, scattering the column.

In one of the most daunting logistical efforts of the Confederacy, Longstreet, with the divisions of Lafayette McLaws and John Hood, a brigade from George Pickett's division, and Porter Alexander's 26-gun artillery battalion, traveled over 16 railroads on a 775 mile route through the Carolinas to reach Bragg in northern Georgia.

Together with the corps' three divisional artilleries, the guns produced the heaviest bombardment of World War I outside European theatres.