Sentence examples for guns to replace from inspiring English sources

Light horse units underwent a similar process, although were issued Hotchkiss guns to replace their Lewis guns in early 1917.

When the US was considering whether to have a mixed-calibre main armament for the South Carolina class, for example, William Sims and Homer Poundstone stressed the advantages of homogeneity in terms of ammunition supply and the transfer of crews from the disengaged guns to replace gunners wounded in action.

Cuniberti's idea which he had already proposed to his own navy, the Regia Marina was to make use of the high rate of fire of new 12-inch guns to produce devastating rapid-fire from heavy guns to replace the 'hail of fire' from lighter weapons.

Massachusetts now received the same upgrades, including twelve 3 /50 caliber gun single-purpose guns to replace the 6-inch and most of the lighter guns, new Babcock & Wilcox boilers, counterweights to balance her main turrets, a lattice mast and electric traversing mechanisms for her turrets.

The 36-year-old detainee said bad luck, not guilt, had led to his arrest and torture, after he tried to buy a gun to replace one confiscated by the former rebels.

In May 1917, the cavalry regiments received the Vickers machine-gun to replace their older Maxim Guns and all ranks were put through training courses on the Vickers and a newer version of the Lee-Enfield Rifle, which had also just been issued.

In 1897 the Naval General Staff proposed to re-gun her with more powerful 12-inch 40-calibre guns and to replace the compound armour of her redoubt with Krupp armor, but this proved to be too expensive.

When guns began to replace the traditional weapon of spears during the first civil war in Sudan, some Nuer were no longer confident that death caused by bullet wounds was sufficiently purified by the customary rituals alone.

That's why organizations like Gays Against Guns aim to replace these numbers with human faces through public demonstrations.

In September 1942 the.50 Browning AN/M2 heavy machine gun began to replace both calibres of the Vickers machine guns and the Boys anti-tank rifle.

Dr. Schlosser asked the participant to remove their standard duty belt (in case they were carrying a loaded gun) and to replace it with a duty belt with a safe-training, inoperable handgun.