Sentence examples for incoming mortar from inspiring English sources

It was a sound both knew well: the descending shriek of an incoming mortar round.

One quickly sets up a gizmo to detect incoming mortar fire, another deploys a light-radar system to spot infiltrators.

If the incoming mortar fire is leaving wounds, Mr. Carney, the bespectacled, baby-faced press warrior, does not feel them.

Meals consisted of the execrable MREs, which we often wolfed down to the chorus of incoming mortar rounds.

There, on a U.S. base called Camp Anaconda — and known to soldiers as Mortaritaville, for its constant barrage of incoming mortar fire — they got more bad news.

Hunching his shoulders, grimacing and clenching his fists, he scanned the sky as if he was expecting incoming mortar rounds, not birds.

He talks about being taught to "get small" when there are incoming mortars, and about the "noise and light discipline" that the platoon employs on a march, putting black electrical tape over shiny, metallic gear and making sure nothing makes a sound.

The curtain has come down and the children have gone off elsewhere to play; meanwhile, behind that curtain -- Americans would prefer not to know just where -- you can still faintly hear the whistle of incoming mortars, the rat-a-rat of machine guns, the sounds of actual war that go on and on and on.

And the focus of firing tests on incoming mortars and missiles and small, swift suicide or swarming boat attacks (think USS Cole bombing to understand this threat), plus official statements on the value of lasers as an ordinance-free weapon creating less risk than storing and handling fuel and gunpowder, indicate some concern with soldier safety.

Indeed, until just an hour or so before the ceasefire came into effect the booming ping-ping exchange of outgoing and incoming grad, mortar, and artillery fire was audible across the city with some hits close enough to set off car alarms in central streets.

The company has also developed a mobile high-energy laser weapon system (HELWS) called Iron Beam, which is designed to destroy incoming rockets, mortars, and UAVs in mid-flight as well as to engage airborne targets at closer ranges.