Then the heavy guns arrived.
Western warplanes repeatedly hit heavy guns, but replacements keep coming.
From behind sand berms at army checkpoints, tanks point their heavy guns into traffic.
The Taliban, he said, had "very sophisticated weapons," including rocket launchers and heavy guns.
In the halls where heavy guns were once produced, artists are free to show their work.
Members of a private militia, dressed in military fatigues and carrying heavy guns, roamed the field.
The Spanish ships' heavy guns were not mounted, nor were Spanish gunners trained to reload in action.
Heavy guns were fielded at the mouth of the Brazos, and companies were raised to defend Corpus Christi.
The first automatic weapons to take advantage of this were heavy guns firing the new, high-velocity rifle cartridges.
"The decision was always, when do you sort of bring out the heavy guns of the constitutional challenge," Crane said.
These reports of shootings, of attackers with heavy guns on the run, spread rapidly over social media.
