Sentence examples similar to heavy unit from inspiring English sources

A new Chief of Staff would have a mandate to address what was now an obvious operational gap between the Army's light units, which were too vulnerable, and its heavy units, which were too slow.

Afghanistan is not the only nest of terrorism we will need to deal with, and other forces including heavy units–and other tactics may well be required to level other terrorist havens, such as Iraq.

III Corps took charge of the heavy units designed for large, conventional offensive actions.

In September 1943, the Admiralty asked for the PRU's help in Operation Source, to cripple German heavy units in Norway.

The heavy units of the High Seas Fleet sailed at 13:40, with the objective to provide distant support for Bödicker's ships.

On 3 August 1915, several heavy units of the High Seas Fleet were transferred to the Baltic to participate in a planned foray into the Riga Gulf.

In 1903 he was posted aboard, the first of a string of big ship appointments teaching gunnery to the heavy units of the Channel Fleet.

The heavily outgunned British cruisers retired to a safe distance and shadowed the enemy until their own heavy units could draw closer.

They were detected in the Skagerrak and the heavy units of the British Home Fleet deployed to cover the passage between Iceland and the Faroes.

Following her sinking, and the retreat of most of the other German heavy units from Norway, the need to maintain powerful forces in British home waters was diminished.

The ship escorted the heavy units of the Mediterranean Fleet on 6 May as they provided cover for Operation Tiger, a convoy carrying reinforcements to Egypt.